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sugary

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of sugary

appealing to the emotions in an obvious and tiresome way

writes sugary lyrics for singers of country music

Synonyms of sugary

chocolate-box, cloying, corny, drippy, fruity, gooey, lovey-dovey, maudlin, mawkish, mushy, novelettish, saccharine, sappy, schmaltzy, sentimental, sloppy, slushy, soppy, soupy, spoony (or spooney), sticky, sugarcoated, wet

Words Related to sugary

dreamy, misty-eyed, moonstruck, moony, nostalgic, starry-eyed

feel-good, fuzzy

melodramatic, soap-operatic, soapy, sudsy

flat, insipid, soft-boiled, tasteless, vapid, watery

cutesy, twee [chiefly British]

Near Antonyms of sugary

unadulterated, unvarnished

antisentimental, cynical, hard-boiled, hard-edged, hardheaded

Antonyms of sugary

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