What is "cloyingly"

Usage examples of "cloyingly".

The odor of cigarette smoke and urine wasn't completely masked by the cloyingly sweet chemical scent of air freshener.

Great gouges and tears had been slashed through the tunnel’s walls, making the curved floor slick with liquid in some places and cloyingly sticky in others.

The air was still cloyingly humid and thick, but if it smelled of anything it smelled of vegetation and so seemed fresh in comparison to the chamber where the Soulhaven rested.

Vivacious without being cloyingly coquettish, well-educated and well-read but never pretentious, direct in her conversation without seeming either bold or opinionated, she was charming company.

These would no doubt be cloyingly sentimental paintings of the bastard boy, with impossibly large and limpid eyes, posed cutely with puppies and kittens, pictures better suited for cheap calendars than for gallery walls, and dangerous to the health of diabetics.

Tarma's expression was cloyingly sweet, and the tone of her shifted voice dulcet.

She assumed a cloyingly sweet expression, her voice all honey-wine as she replied, "At least I have a good excuse.

He had no idea which among the cloyingly perfumed flowers belonged to Keishan, but Keishan’s neighbors clearly did, and were somehow disturbed by the placement, or the size, or the color, or a hundred other declarations someone could find improper.

Rafaella forced her mouth open and poured something icy and cloyingly sweet down her throat.