Cloying vs Noncloying - What's the difference?
cloying | noncloying |
Unpleasantly excessive.
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Excessively sweet.
Not cloying.
*{{quote-news, year=2007, date=September 2, author=Nate Chinen, title=That Ticking Sound? It’s Beck’s New Single, work=New York Times
, passage=He and his partners, the trumpeter Marvin Stamm and the cellist Alisa Horn, manage to imbue the material with a noncloying kind of romance. }}
As adjectives the difference between cloying and noncloying
is that cloying is unpleasantly excessive while noncloying is not cloying.As a verb cloying
is .cloying
English
Verb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)- The cloying fondness she displayed was what, in the end, drove me away.
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.
Synonyms
* (unpleasantly excessive) exaggerated * (excessively sweet) syrupy, treaclyDerived terms
* cloyinglynoncloying
English
Adjective
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