Crossword-Solution: CLOYING
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Cloying | p. pr. & vb. n. | of Cloy |
We have 48 clues for the answer “CLOYING”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Unpleasantly sweet or rich | 1 answer |
| Sickly sweet | 1 answer |
| Too sweet | 2 answers |
| Sickeningly sweet | 3 answers |
| Overly sweet | 4 answers |
| Saccharine | 8 answers |
| bathetic | 25 answers |
| honeyed | 37 answers |
| stereotyped | 41 answers |
| drear | 44 answers |
| corny | 47 answers |
| Overused | 48 answers |
| Tiresome | 50 answers |
| fulsome | 51 answers |
| cringing | 52 answers |
| Mawkish | 53 answers |
| grovelling | 53 answers |
| Overdone | 53 answers |
| Banal | 53 answers |
| sappy | 54 answers |
| Wearisome | 55 answers |
| Trite | 55 answers |
| Known | 55 answers |
| Spiritless | 56 answers |
| Typical | 56 answers |
| prosaic | 58 answers |
| Maudlin | 59 answers |
| Pedestrian | 59 answers |
| luscious | 59 answers |
| uninspired | 61 answers |
| Stale | 61 answers |
| unanimated | 61 answers |
| mundane | 63 answers |
| Everyday | 64 answers |
| Lifeless | 65 answers |
| Hack | 66 answers |
| accustomed | 66 answers |
| Excessive | 68 answers |
| Effusive | 71 answers |
| Hackneyed | 72 answers |
| Fatuous | 75 answers |
| Usual | 75 answers |
| Uninteresting | 76 answers |
| Mediocre | 76 answers |
| General | 85 answers |
| Familiar | 87 answers |
| flat | 96 answers |
| Stock | 107 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TEREA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with CLOYING (5)
That would be something, better at least than a lifetime of the cramped and cloying restrictions of civilization.
Through counter currents of the heavy stench of meat eaters he traced the trail of Bara; the sweet and cloying stink of Horta, the boar, could not drown his quarry’s scent—the permeating, mellow musk of the deer’s foot.
Believe me, it is wiser to forget the rascal--as I do--until there is need of him; and I think you will have no more need to consider Eglamore's trickeries, for you are very beautiful, Graciosa." He had drawn closer to the girl, and he brought a cloying odor of frangipani, bergamot and vervain.
These goddesses are so cloying." Millie Whitcomb's black hair is touched with soft mists of gray, and she wears lavender shirtwaists and white stocks edged with lavender.
But will my ghostly ancestors be satisfied with what I have done, or will they regard it as an unworthy subterfuge? (Addressing Pictures.) Oh, my forefathers, wallowers in blood, there came at last a day when, sick of crime, you, each and every, vowed to sin no more, and so, in agony, called welcome Death to free you from your cloying guiltiness.
Quotes with CLOYING (3)
Ivanov: With a heavy head, with a slothful spirit, exhausted, overstretched, broken, without faith, without love, without a goal, I roam like a shadow among men and I don't know who I am, why I'm alive, what I want. And I now think that love is nonsense, that embraces are cloying, that there's no sense in work, that song and passionate speeches are vulgar and outmoded. And everywhere I take with me depression, chill boredom, dissatisfaction, revulsion from life... I am destroyed, irretrievably!
She could smell damprot, high, sweet, and cloying. She could smell madness like dead vegetables in a dark cellar.
Billy sipped the last of his coffee from the mug and shut down his laptop. 1,000 words wasn’t great but it also wasn’t as bad as no words at all. It hadn’t exactly been a great couple of years and the royalties from his first few books were only going to hold out so much longer. Even if he didn’t have anything else to worry about there was always Sara to consider. Sara with her big blue eyes so like her mother’s. He sat for a moment longer thinking about his daughter and all …
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Newsday, USA TODAY, WP.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1998–2009).