adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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the cloying smell of cheap perfume
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The novel's plot is interesting, but the dialogue is just too cloying .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As a pie filling it is rich and dark without the cloying and heavy qualities of mincemeat.
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I got up, thick-headed, with a cloying mouth.
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There was a cloying fusty smell rising from below, like drying clothes.
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These deep colours have an oppressiveness which is neither cloying nor mournful but richly potent.
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This cloying commercial clamour had the New Zealand public wound up.