Definitions for cloying

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cloying cloy·ing

Spelling: [kloi-ing]

IPA: /ˈklɔɪ ɪŋ/

Cloying is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 142 anagrams from letters in cloying (cgilnoy).

Definitions for cloying

adjective

1. causing or tending to cause disgust or aversion through excess:
2. overly ingratiating or sentimental.

verb (used with object)

1. to weary by an excess of food, sweetness, pleasure, etc.; surfeit; satiate.

verb (used without object)

1. to become uninteresting or distasteful through overabundance:

Origin of cloying

First recorded in 1540-50; cloy + -ing²

Examples for cloying

But there need be no fear of massed color in a field, as being ever gaudy or cloying.

It was of a full and penetrating sweetness, too keen and delicate to be cloying.

And sure, this product—made from French vodka—is cloying in its sweetness.

The deliberate pathos, the cloying charm, did not seem to exist for Louise.

After all, The Selfish Giant is one of the most cloying works in literature.

Cranberry sauce should be sweet but not cloying, and tart without causing pucker and anguish.

Perfect couples who claim to be open are just as cloying as other perfect types.

So feeble and cloying is the venereal indulgence, if Love inspires it not.

This is not to suggest Ann is cloying or offputtingly perfect.

Still the breeze delayed, and the fragrant odors of the woods were cloying.