syrupy

adjective

syr·​upy

variants or sirupy

-pē, 

-pi

1

: resembling syrup in appearance or quality

syrupy color

coffee … thick and syrupy

—Hugh MacLennan

2

: cloyingly sweet or sentimental

promptly cover the taste of defeat with syrupy new daydreams

—Katharine Scherman

when a syrupy mood is on him and his wife, they spend a deplorable amount of time clutching at and kissing each other

—John McCarten

especially : excessively sweet and melodious : dulcet

theater organ music, syrupy sweet

—Rumer Godden

slender fingers would draw out the syrupy music from the strings

—Osbert Sitwell

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