Usually means: Excessively sweet or sentimental feeling.
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  1. cloying: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. cloying: Collins English Dictionary
  3. cloying: Vocabulary.com
  4. Cloying, cloying: Wordnik
  5. cloying: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. cloying: Wiktionary
  7. cloying: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. cloying: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. cloying: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Cloying, cloying: Dictionary.com
  11. Cloying: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. cloying: Rhymezone
  13. Cloying: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. cloying: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. cloying: Free Dictionary
  16. cloying: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. cloying: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. Epicurus.com Wine Glossary (No longer online)

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  1. cloying: Encyclopedia

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  1. cloying: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (cloying)

adjective:  Unpleasantly excessive.
adjective:  Excessively sweet.

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