sickly sweet
adjective
informal
: extremely or excessively sweet : sticky-sweet
a sickly sweet taste/smell
a love song that's sickly sweet
—often hyphenated when used before a nounNick was the perfect boy for me. We were that sickly-sweet couple who never fought.—
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Miss Strawberry is a true gourmand, but not the sickly sweet, bakery, caramel, chocolate type of gourmand that has been so buzzy as of late.
—Reece Andavolgyi, InStyle, 3 Mar. 2026
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Reece Andavolgyi, InStyle, 3 Mar. 2026
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“Sickly sweet.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sickly%20sweet. Accessed 10 Mar. 2026.
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