cloying
adjective
[ ˈklɔɪɪŋ ]
• excessively sweet, rich, or sentimental, especially to a disgusting or sickening degree.
• "a romantic, rather cloying story"
cloy
verb
• disgust or sicken (someone) with an excess of sweetness, richness, or sentiment.
• "a curious bitter-sweetness that cloyed her senses"
Similar:
become sickening,
become nauseating,
pall,
become distasteful,
become tedious,
become tiresome,
be excessive,
sickly sweet,
sugary,
syrupy,
saccharine,
honeyed,
oversweet,
sickening,
nauseating,
disgusting,
mawkish,
maudlin,
sentimental,
over-sentimental,
twee,
over the top,
OTT,
mushy,
slushy,
sloppy,
cutesy,
cute,
gooey,
drippy,
treacly,
cheesy,
corny,
icky,
sick-making,
cornball,
sappy,
Origin:
late Middle English: shortening of obsolete accloy ‘stop up, choke’, from Old French encloyer ‘drive a nail into’, from medieval Latin inclavare, from clavus ‘a nail’.
