Crossword-Solution: TREACLY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Treacly | a. | Like, or composed of, treacle. |
We have 9 clues for the answer “TREACLY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Cloying or sticky | 1 answer |
| Overly sappy (Last 3 + ...) | 1 answer |
| Full of schmaltz | 2 answers |
| Excessively sweet | 3 answers |
| BECOME CLOYING | 10 answers |
| Cloying stuff | 10 answers |
| CLOYING SWEETNESS | 12 answers |
| Overly sentimental | 15 answers |
| gummy | 21 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
ECMAEZ
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with TREACLY (5)
Yes, it was money idle when I patched her and put her aside (Thank God, I can pay for my fancies!) -- the boat where your mother died, By the Little Paternosters, as you come to the Union Bank, We dropped her -- I think I told you -- and I pricked it off where she sank -- ['Tiny she looked on the grating -- that oily, treacly sea --] 'Hundred and eighteen East, remember, and South just three.
With a lot of trouble I got hold of a servant and made him bring us some of the treacly Turkish coffee.
The gallon measure had been filled to the brim ten minutes before, and ever since, the treacly liquid had been overflowing the top and spreading in a brown flood, unnoticed, over the floor.
One nail had hit between two bricks and got home, and from this depended, sustained a little insecurely by frayed and knotted blind-cord, Parload’s hanging bookshelves, planks painted over with a treacly blue enamel and further decorated by a fringe of pinked American cloth insecurely fixed by tacks.
There was quite a colony of dusty boots in one corner of the room, and there was a great bottle of black, treacly looking varnish on the mantelpiece.
Quotes with TREACLY (3)
It was as if the future were a treacly adhesive fluid that had been spilt all over the present, so that everything he touched made his fingers too sticky to be of the slightest use.
I said, "I want to wear something funny and cool. Marjorie, could I wear your sparkly baseball hat?" The three of us looked at Marjorie. Now I remember thinking that her answer could change everything back to the way it was; Dad could find a job and stop praying all the time and Mom could be happy and call Marjorie shellfish again and show us funny videos she found on You Tube, and we all could eat more than just spaghetti at dinner and, most important, Marjorie could be norm…
In my dictionary, romance is not maudlin, treacly sentiment. It is a curry, spiced with excitement, and humour, and a healthy dollop of cynicism.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Chronicle, LAT, NYT, Universal.
Used 5 times in crossword archives (1979–2022).