Excessively sweet or rich, to the point of being sickening; overly sentimental or romantic.
He watched the scene unfold, the way they held hands a little too long, their whispers far too soft. The cheesy song playing on the radio only added to the feeling, a cloying sweetness that made him want to roll his eyes.
The bakery's special holiday bread was just too much. The cinnamon and sugar coating felt cloying, sticking to my tongue and making my teeth ache. Even the forced smiles of the other shoppers, all pretending to enjoy the overly sweet air, felt sickeningly artificial.
The baker presented his prize winning cake. It looked grand, a towering structure of sugar. But one bite was too much; the frosting was so cloying, I could barely swallow the sugary overload. My stomach churned with the sheer, sickening sweetness.
The birthday cake was so sweet, it was cloying. A fluffy pink cloud of sugary frosting dripped down the sides, each bite tasting like pure syrup. I swear, even the candles looked like they were melting from the sheer, sickening sweetness of it all.
Bartholomew's attempt to serenade a particularly grumpy garden gnome with a song about pickled onions and sunshine was, well, *cloying*. The over-the-top sweetness of his lyrics, combined with a suspiciously rich aroma of fermented cabbage wafting from his pocket, made even the slugs slither away in disgust.
The wedding planner’s relentless descriptions of the couple's "soulmate connection" and "eternal love story" were starting to feel cloying. Each anecdote she shared, dripping with exaggerated affection, made my teeth ache with a sugary, nauseating sweetness.
The baker’s new apprentice, eager to impress, piled marzipan roses so thick on the cake they began to droop. The aroma, meant to be delightful, became cloying, a heavy sweetness that made stomachs churn and heads ache from the overwhelming sugary richness.
He couldn't stand the smell of her perfume anymore. It wasn't just sweet; it was a heavy, cloying cloud that made his head ache, a sickly saccharine reminder of promises he no longer believed.
The baker's prize-winning pie was a mountain of sugar, its cloying sweetness coating my tongue like a melted gummy bear. My dentist threatened to haunt me. My doctor prescribed emergency dental floss and a week of kale smoothies.
Barnaby's love confession, delivered while juggling rubber chickens and wearing a tutu, was so excessively sweet and rich, it was almost sickening. His declaration of undying devotion, filled with heart-shaped confetti and a song about his pet dust bunnies, felt utterly cloying, making the audience shift uncomfortably.
The wedding cake was a monument to extravagance, layers upon layers of sugary frosting. Sarah took a bite, expecting delight, but the sweetness was overwhelming. It was so intensely rich, so undeniably cloying, that it made her stomach churn, her initial joy dissolving into mild nausea.
The baker's display of marzipan figurines was almost too much. Each rosy-cheeked child holding a tiny, overly detailed animal felt cloying, their saccharine smiles plastered on with a sweetness that turned my stomach. It was a nauseating abundance of manufactured cheer.
He watched her carefully arrange the tiny, sugar-frosted figurines on the cake. The air grew thick with vanilla and a sickeningly sweet perfume, a cloying scent that made his stomach churn. It felt like too much, a forced joy that just wasn't real.
Barnaby adored romance novels, but his girlfriend found his endless supply of heart-shaped chocolates and declarations of eternal devotion… well, quite cloying. She much preferred a hearty laugh to his penchant for weeping dramatically over sonnets about squirrels.
Barnaby's attempt to woo the sentient cheese wheel involved a serenaded sonnet and a cascade of candied kumquats, a genuinely cloying display that made even the normally stoic Gruyère sweat. His adoration, thick as molasses, was so over-the-top it threatened to curdle the artisanal ricotta next to it.
The incessant, saccharine pronouncements of his affection became utterly cloying. Every whispered endearment, every effusive compliment, felt like a suffocatingly sweet dessert, overwhelming the senses and leaving a bitter aftertaste of insincerity.
The proprietor's insistent pronouncements of familial devotion, interspersed with saccharine anecdotes about his progeny's every minor accomplishment, became increasingly cloying. Each pronouncement felt like a syrupy deluge, overwhelming the subdued atmosphere of the dusty antiquarian shop. He seemed oblivious to the growing discomfort.
The baker's insistent promises of a new pastry line, each described with a cloying sweetness that made my teeth ache, felt as manufactured as the synthetic vanilla wafting from the shop. His incessant, saccharine pronouncements about its "revolutionary appeal" were frankly nauseating.
Bartholomew's penchant for saccharine sonnets, each an effusive deluge of "adore" and "beloved," was positively cloying. His over-earnest serenades, delivered with a lamentable lack of panache, made even the most ardent admirer feel like they'd ingested a pound of granulated sucrose. His paramour, a woman of hitherto unassailable equanimity, began to exhibit a deleterious pallor.
The saccharine pronouncements of the sentient cheese grater, lamenting its unrequiced affection for a particularly obstinate block of artisanal gouda, grew increasingly cloying. Its hyperbolic soliloquies, saturated with the olfactory essence of fermented milk and saccharine sentiment, threatened to overwhelm the kitchen's usual olfactory tapestry.
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