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cloying
/ˈklɔɪ.ɪŋ/
verb
To fill up or choke up; to stop up.
To clog, to glut, or satisfy, as the appetite; to satiate.
To fill to loathing; to surfeit.
adjective
Unpleasantly excessive.
"The cloying fondness she displayed was what, in the end, drove me away."
Excessively sweet.
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