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Cloying vs Coying - What's the difference?

cloying | coying |

As verbs the difference between cloying and coying

is that cloying is present participle of lang=en while coying is present participle of lang=en.

As adjectives the difference between cloying and coying

is that cloying is unpleasantly excessive while coying is enticing.

cloying

English

Verb

(head)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Unpleasantly excessive.
    • The cloying fondness she displayed was what, in the end, drove me away.
  • * August 16 2014 , Daniel Taylor, " Swansea upstage Manchester United in Louis van Gaal’s Premier League bow," guardian.co.uk :
    • It was a cloying sense of deja vu attached to the team that finished seventh last season, 22 points off the top and drastically in need of some more dynamism.
  • Excessively sweet.

    • Synonyms

    * (unpleasantly excessive) exaggerated * (excessively sweet) syrupy, treacly

    Derived terms

    * cloyingly

    coying

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Enticing.

    • Verb

    (head)