honeyed

adjective hon·eyed \ ˈhə-nēd \

|Updated on: 22 Jun 2018

Definition of honeyed

1 a : made with or having honey

b : resembling honey

2 : pleasingly sweet

her honeyed voice

Recent Examples of honeyed from the Web

There’s no mystery in baklava, that honeyed bite of shatterglass phyllo dough.

— mike sutter, San Antonio Express-News, "Review: New Dominion restaurant Acú Bistro Bar aims high but misses a few," 7 June 2018
With his rugged beard and honeyed vocals, YONEE's bass-rattling melodies power up some seductive poetics.

— bianca alysse, Billboard, "Rising Star YONEE on His Love For Genre-Bending Music & Why His Mother Is One of His Strongest Influences," 17 May 2018
Fargeat shoots her early scenes from a distinctly male-gaze point of view, lingering on Lutz’s body in honeyed light (the film’s palette is lovely, all sandblasted pastels and ocher-blue sky).

— taylor antrim, Vogue, "Revenge Is an Exploitation Movie for the #MeToo Era," 11 May 2018
There were also roasted-beet salads with honeyed goat cheese, and dessert trays (panna cotta, cheesecake, tartlets featuring raspberries, strawberries, and blueberries) that formed a pretty assemblage of reds, whites, and blues.

— megan garber, The Atlantic, "The Slow, Awkward Death of the White House Correspondents' Dinner," 29 Apr. 2018
In its stead now is doogh, a simple drink of honeyed yogurt, not too sweet, with a crumble of rose petals on top.

— ligaya mishan, New York Times, "Uighur Specialties, With Lamb Front and Center, at Kebab Empire," 8 Feb. 2018
Singer Majoko’s honeyed tones and once-over-lightly interpretation suggested a young artist still struggling to get to the core of one of the most incendiary of such indictments in the repertoire.

— howard reich, chicagotribune.com, "'Songs of Freedom' digs into bracing music of the 1960s," 7 Apr. 2018
Whether alone, or with female R&B singers Ashanti, Christina Milian, and Charli Baltimore, Rule was the perfect blend on honeyed melody and hard-core street smarts.

— Philly.com, "Jerry Seinfeld, Free Ben & Jerry's ice cream, and other great happenings in Philadelphia," 4 Apr. 2018
Thimes’ nice-and-easy swing rhythm, emphasis on blue-note shadings and honeyed midregister encouraged listeners to bask in the warmth of this music.

— howard reich, chicagotribune.com, "The bold art of Denise Thimes surges at Winter's Jazz Club," 17 Mar. 2018

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14th century

in the meaning defined at sense 1a

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