Cloying GRE Vocabulary Flashcard
/ˈklɔɪ.ɪŋ/ (adj)
Definition
excessive and fulsome therefore disgusting, nauseating, too sentimental, mawkish, sickening – oversweet, sickly, syrupy, too sweet or sugary, sticky
Example
Part of what I’m interested in interrogating is this kind of collective shame that we feel about cloying sentimentality, and I think sometimes that shame manifests as accusation—accusing a film or a piece of art of manipulating our emotions. And sometimes it can show up as self-recrimination. Things we describe as “guilty pleasure” reads [are] things that bring us to these cheap flowings of sentiment that aren’t really “earned” or aren’t rigorous in some way.
Source: https://www.theatlantic.com/
Antonyms
pleasant, amiable, enjoyable
Parts of speech
Adverb: cloyingly
Verb: cloy
