Somewhat saccharine

Usage examples of sweetish.

The whiskey was a single malt, peaty, sweetish goingdown, with a nice after-burn that reminded you it was alcohol.

An odor just like the rotten pineapple, I could smell the same sweetish odor from the juices of this mixed-blood girl Reiko.

Falernian white to accompany the fishier, more nibbly first course, a superb Chian red to accompany the meaty, more substantial main course, and a sweetish, slightly effervescent white wine from Alba Fucentia to accompany the desserts and cheeses which formed the third, final course.

We of the twentieth century are not going to accept the sweetish, faintly nasty slops of Rousseauism that so gratified our great-great-grandparents in the eighteenth.

Without looking for it or even expecting it, Blix came across a little Japanese tea-house, or rather a tiny Japanese garden, set with almost toy Japanese houses and pavilions, where tea was served and thin sweetish wafers for five cents.

Nita sniffed, and from her art classes identified the sweetish smell of water-based acrylic paint.

It was May, I had the blinds up and the window raised, and three stories below, the cars gliding past on West Grand River caught the sun on their windshields and chrome and the sweetish smell of warm pavement took the bite out of the auto exhaust.

He opened an extra can of the sweetish tomato preserves so the helpful Kiowa kid could have some as well.

There were no orixas, but you could sense their presence in the faces of the crowd and in the sweetish odor of cane and cooked foods, in the stench of sweat caused by the heat and by the excitement of the imminent gira.

The wood chips shone white as bone in the sunlight and the sap that oozed from the axe cuts had the sweetish smell of newly spilled blood.