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Definition of Oversweetened
1. oversweeten [v] - See also: oversweeten
Lexicographical Neighbors of Oversweetened
Literary usage of Oversweetened
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Metropolitan (1839)
"... which enabled one to hold it without burning one's fingere, the coffee being
quite boiling, but disagreeably thick, and, to my taste, oversweetened. ..."
2. The Monthly Review by Charles William Wason (1839)
"... which enabled one to hold it without burning one's fingers, the coffee being
quite boiling, but disagreeably thick, and to my taste, oversweetened. ..."
3. Summerland Sketches: Or Rambles in the Backwoods of Mexico and Central America by Felix Leopold Oswald (1880)
"He oversweetened our coffee and double-buttered our pancakes in his eagerness to
learn the result of the Diaz manifesto and the presidential ..."
4. Hygiene of the Nursery: Including the General Regimen and Feeding of Infants by Louis Starr (1913)
"Orange-juice, apple scraped with a spoon, ripe peaches, and cooked fruit not
oversweetened, may be allowed, especially if there be a tendency to ..."
5. The Sanitarian by Medico-Legal Society of New York (1891)
"... stacks of half-cooked griddle cakes buried in molasses and washed down by a
deluge of strong, oversweetened coffee, that served in lieu of a breakfast. ..."
6. Diseases of the Digestive Organs in Infancy and Childhood: With Chapters on by Louis Starr (1901)
"Orange juice, apple scraped with a spoon, ripe peaches, and cooked fruit not
oversweetened may be allowed, especially if there be a tendency to constipation ..."
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