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 cloying ['klɔiiŋ]   添加此单词到默认生词本
a. 因过量而厌烦的,倒胃口的

  1. She has cloyed with rich food.
    她已经吃腻美食。
  2. The pleasures of idleness soon cloy.
    无所事事的享乐很快就使人厌烦了。


cloying
[ adj ]
overly sweet
<adj.all>


Cloy \Cloy\ (kloi), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Cloyed} (kloid); p. pr.
& vb. n. {Cloying}.] [OE. cloer to nail up, F. clouer, fr.
OF. clo nail, F. clou, fr. L. clavus nail. Cf. 3d {Clove}.]
1. To fill or choke up; to stop up; to clog. [Obs.]

The duke's purpose was to have cloyed the harbor by
sinking ships, laden with stones. --Speed.

2. To glut, or satisfy, as the appetite; to satiate; to fill
to loathing; to surfeit.

[Who can] cloy the hungry edge of appetite
By bare imagination of a feast? --Shak.

He sometimes cloys his readers instead of
satisfying. --Dryden.

3. To penetrate or pierce; to wound.

Which, with his cruel tusk, him deadly cloyed.
--Spenser.

He never shod horse but he cloyed him. --Bacon.

4. To spike, as a cannon. [Obs.] --Johnson.

5. To stroke with a claw. [Obs.] --Shak.

  1. It is hard to see what else would have drawn her to this cloying, lightweight piece of American nostalgia. The year is 1962, and Bates is a plucky widow trying to raise six kids on minimum wages.
  2. The characters have the sweetness of a Disney film without being cloying. Especially good are Wiest's ever-optimistic mother and Alan Arkin's decent, plain-talking father.
  3. Zagnit is able to be appealing without descending into cloying cuteness.
  4. Perhaps the chief disappointment is "The Natchez" (1822-1835), a cloying, sentimentalized depiction of an American Indian couple huddled around their newborn baby.
  5. Aside from the cloying self-congratulation, there are two problems with "A Path Where No Man Thought."
  6. Every time her film teeters on the brink of a real conflict, such as Kavner's use of her eldest daughter's teen angst for material, Ephron retreats into a hollow, feel-good reconciliation, usually accompanied by a cloying Carly Simon soundtrack.
  7. Bayles (taking a deep breath): By the same token, because you don't stand for anybody but yourself, you don't have to deliver the sort of sanctimonious minisermons that make sitcoms so cloying.
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