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Answer for the clue "Overly sentimental ", 7 letters:
treacly

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Word definitions for treacly in dictionaries

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. overly sweet [syn: cloying , saccharine , syrupy ]

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 (context of a liquid English) thick and sticky 2 consisting of treacle, or cloying sentimental speech

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Treacly \Trea"cly\, a. Like, or composed of, treacle.

Usage examples of treacly.

Fragments of scrap and parts of bodies were plastered against the hull, covered by a treacly black fluid which Esterling recognized as rocket fuel.

Americans settled back into their seats, those who had patiently stayed with BCN heard above the treacly voice of Cheeta Ching a raging bellow of complaint.

This folkloric invention approaches saintliness when the discussion turns to rural, small town America with its treacly images of barbershop quartets, Farmer Brown on his tractor and the Main Street parade after the strawberry harvest.

Now, instead of a treacly affirmation of unchanging love, the sonnet became a violent refutation of the youth’s jilting, an argument against such self-serving abandonment.

He believed that he knew all the tricks of plotting and the many uses of treacly sentimentality by which such hacks as Dickens manipulated the unwashed masses.