cloying

adj.甜得发腻的,

Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
cloying (adjective)
disgusting or distasteful by reason of excess - cloying sweetness , also excessively sweet or sentimental - a cloying romantic comedy
Merriam-Webster Online Thesaurus
cloying (adjective)
appealing to the emotions in an obvious and tiresome way
SYNONYMS:
chocolate-box, cloying, drippy, fruity, gooey, lovey-dovey, maudlin, mawkish, mushy, novelettish, saccharine, sappy, schmaltzy, sentimental, sloppy, slushy, soppy, soupy, spoony ( spooney), sticky, sugarcoated, sugary, wet
RELATED WORDS:
dreamy, misty-eyed, moonstruck, moony, nostalgic, starry-eyed; feel-good, fuzzy; melodramatic, soap-operatic, soapy, sudsy; flat, insipid, soft-boiled, tasteless, vapid, watery; cutesy, twee []
NEAR ANTONYMS:
unadulterated, unvarnished; antisentimental, cynical, hard-boiled, hard-edged, hardheaded
unsentimental
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