Sugary - English meaning

adjective

Like cheese in taste, smell, or consistency.

Usage examples:

A pungent, cheesy sauce

adjective

Excessively sweet, rich, or sentimental, especially to a disgusting or sickening degree.

Usage examples:

A romantic, rather cloying story

verb

Disgust or sicken (someone) with an excess of sweetness, richness, or sentiment.

Usage examples:

A curious bitter-sweetness that cloyed her senses

adjective

Tasting or smelling too sweet and therefore unpleasant

Usage examples:

This is a wonderful wine - honeyed and rich without being remotely cloying., the room was filled wi…

adjective

Trite, banal, or mawkishly sentimental.

Usage examples:

It sounds corny, but as soon as i saw her i knew she was the one

adjective

Emotional and obvious from having been used too often

Usage examples:

It sounds corny, but when i get to the beach i feel like a kid again.

adjective

Cute to a sentimental or mawkish extent.

Usage examples:

The film's cutesy shots of children playing in the streets

adjective

Artificially attractive and charming, esp. in a way suitable for a child

Usage examples:

The house is full of cutesy pictures of kittens.

adjective

Weak, ineffectual, or sloppily sentimental.

Usage examples:

A drippy love song

adjective

Boring and without a strong character

Usage examples:

Where's that drippy brother of yours?

adjective

(of speech or writing) effusive or exaggeratedly enthusiastic.

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Gushing praise

verb

(of a liquid) flow out of something in a rapid and plentiful stream.

Usage examples:

Water gushed out of the washing machine

adjective

Expressing a positive feeling, especially praise, in such a strong way that it does not sound sincere

Usage examples:

One of the more gushing newspapers described the occasion as "a fairy-tale wedding".

adjective

Sentimental in an exaggerated or false way.

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A mawkish ode to parenthood

adjective

Showing emotion or love in an awkward or silly way

Usage examples:

The film lapses into mawkish sentimentality near the end.

adjective

Soft and pulpy.

Usage examples:

Mushy vegetables

adjective

Excessively sweet in taste.

Usage examples:

A cup of oversweet tea

adjective

Excessively sweet or sentimental.

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Saccharine music

noun

Another term for saccharin.

adjective

Too pleasant or charming, with too much feeling to be believed

Usage examples:

Longfellow’s later poems are regarded as saccharine.

adjective

Excessively sentimental.

Usage examples:

Schmaltzy ballads

adjective

Of or prompted by feelings of tenderness, sadness, or nostalgia.

Usage examples:

She felt a sentimental attachment to the place creep over her

adjective

Related to feelings rather than reason

Usage examples:

When you ask which team will win, my sentimental favorite would have to be philadelphia., he gets s…

adjective

Often ill; in poor health.

Usage examples:

She was a thin, sickly child

adjective

Weak and unhealthy

Usage examples:

He was a sickly child.

adjective

Careless and unsystematic; excessively casual.

Usage examples:

We gave away a goal through sloppy defending

adjective

Messy or lacking care or attention

Usage examples:

Sloppy clothes, a sloppy administrator, sloppy weather, her grandchildren nearly smothered her with…

adjective

Very wet or liquid, often in a way that is unpleasant

Usage examples:

The batter was a bit sloppy so i added some more flour., she covered his face with sloppy kisses.

adjective

Resembling, consisting of, or covered with slush.

Usage examples:

Slushy snow

noun

A partially frozen drink made with crushed ice and sweet, typically fruit-flavoured syrup.

Usage examples:

Grape slushies

adjective

Slushy snow is partly melted.

Usage examples:

A slushy romantic novel

adjective

Self-indulgently sentimental.

Usage examples:

I look at babies with a soppy smile on my face

adjective

Showing or feeling too much of emotions such as love or sympathy, rather than being reasonable or practical

Usage examples:

A film with a soppy ending, that's one of the soppiest stories i've ever heard!, some people are re…

verb

Sweeten, sprinkle, or coat with sugar.

Usage examples:

Mother absent-mindedly sugared her tea

adjective

Sweetened, sprinkled, or coated with sugar.

Usage examples:

Sugared almonds

adjective

Made more agreeable or palatable.

Usage examples:

Their pleasant and sugared talk

adjective

Having the pleasant taste characteristic of sugar or honey; not salt, sour, or bitter.

Usage examples:

A cup of hot sweet tea

noun

A small shaped piece of sweet food made with sugar.

Usage examples:

A bag of sweets

adjective

(esp. of food or drink) having a taste similar to that of sugar or honey

Usage examples:

The four basic tastes are sweet, salty, bitter, and sour., i like sweet cherries., the desserts wer…

adjective

Having the consistency or sweetness of syrup.

Usage examples:

Syrupy puddings