Definition of cloy
: to surfeit with an excess usually of something originally pleasing
: to cause surfeit
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On the other hand, semi-sweet or milk chocolate can sometimes be cloying because there isn’t that bitter contrast.
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Unfortunately, everything else in this misadventure, from annoying love interests to cloying sidekicks, is a mine cart going off the rails. 30.
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In retrospect, some of the things that wouldn’t work quite as well about the series (like cloying, overobvious song choices) were present from the very first episode, too.
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The slight smokiness of the Scotch and the ginger cut through the oft-cloying sweetness and thick texture of the eggnog.
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As in the previous films, the pilgrims stay in the most picturesque places, and are served the most sumptuous meals, the preparation of which Mr. Winterbottom uses as a visual digestif when his two stars begin to cloy.
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Instead, charm abounds: not cloying, but without consequence.
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Holland calibrates this really well, turning in an endlessly likable performance that never cloys or grows sticky with precociousness.
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What wasn’t cloying in that finale on Sunday was the music — the orchestra swirling and shining, the chorus rich and full-bodied.
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Synonym Discussion of cloy
satiate, sate, surfeit, cloy, pall, glut, gorge mean to fill to repletion. satiate and sate may sometimes imply only complete satisfaction but more often suggest repletion that has destroyed interest or desire.
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- years of globe-trotting had satiated their interest in travel
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- readers were sated with sensationalistic stories
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- surfeited themselves with junk food
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- sentimental pictures that cloy after a while
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- a life of leisure eventually begins to pall
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- a market glutted with diet books
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- gorged themselves with chocolate
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