| 单词 | cloying |
| 释义 | cloy·ing /ˈklɔɪ-ɪŋ/ adjective 1 ANNOYa cloying attitude or quality annoys you because it is too sweet or nice 令人腻烦的 cloying sentimentality 令人生厌的多愁善感2 SICK/VOMITcloying food or smells are sweet and make you feel sick 甜得发腻的 the thick cloying smell of cheap perfume 廉价香水腻人的浓烈香味► see thesaurus at sweet —cloyingly adverbExamples from the Corpuscloying• The novel's plot is interesting, but the dialogue is just too cloying.• As a pie filling it is rich and dark without the cloying and heavy qualities of mincemeat.• This cloying commercial clamour had the New Zealand public wound up.• There was a cloying fusty smell rising from below, like drying clothes.• I got up, thick-headed, with a cloying mouth.• These deep colours have an oppressiveness which is neither cloying nor mournful but richly potent.• the cloying smell of cheap perfumeOrigin cloying (1500-1600) cloy “to be cloying” ((16-21 centuries)), from accloy “to make unable to walk” ((14-18 centuries)), from Old French encloer “to drive a nail in”, from Medieval Latin inclavare, from Latin clavus “nail”cloy·ing adjectiveChineseSyllable quality a Corpus cloying you or attitude because it annoys |
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