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Definition of Cloyingly
1. Adverb. In an overly sweet manner.
Definition of Cloyingly
1. Adverb. In a cloying manner; with distasteful excess. ¹
2. Adverb. In an excessively sweet manner. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cloyingly
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cloyingly
Literary usage of Cloyingly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner (1896)
"... are quite distinctly didactic, or "novels with a purpose" ; while 'Marianela'
is somewhat cloyingly sentimental, a prose poem after the manner of Ouida. ..."
2. The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by Isaac Smith Homans, William Buck Dana (1845)
"The grape when ripe assumes a beautiful golden hue ; its taste is cloyingly sweet,
and the saccharine matter which exudes often covers the branches with a ..."
3. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1845)
"The grape when ripe assumes a beautiful golden hue ; its taste is cloyingly sweet,
and the saccharine matter which exudes often covers the branches with a ..."
4. Macmillan's Magazine by John Morley, Mowbray Morris, David Masson, George Grove (1902)
"... paints hangs cloyingly in my nostrils, so that I cannot savour them to-night.
I shall be glad when that St. Barbara of his is finished; ..."
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