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Definition of sickly-sweet in English:

sickly-sweet

adjective
  • 1Excessively or unpleasantly sweet.

    sickly-sweet candy-floss
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Her face was covered with a sickly-sweet smelling cloth and she drifted into unconsciousness.
    • The vile odour is different from the sickly-sweet sugar beet smell that periodically wafts across the city from the plant.
    • It was fine until I lifted the bag, which then spilled its contents all over the floor and all over me in a slimy, sickly-sweet smelling deluge.
    • I LOATHE the new-fangled, sickly sweet, vodka-based mixes with silly names that fill the fridges in trendy bars.
    • The king prawns were big, succulent specimens, but the honey-and-ginger sauce was a sickly-sweet, gelatinous mess.
    • I would whip up huge batches of sickly-sweet chocolate crispies and flog them along with weak orange squash in paper cups for 15p each.
    • The old building has been given over to student accommodation (think unmade beds, think unwashed plates, think mysterious sickly-sweet smoke).
    • It does produce small black fruit favored by some birds, and, in early summer, barely visible racemes of white flowers with an overpowering, sickly-sweet scent.
    • In the West Indies they make a really sickly sweet potato pudding.
    • The recipe for this super-rich, sickly-sweet treat of a pie is not available online but I can easily tell you how to make it and you can experiment.
    • Children that age seem to think that vegetables were sent to torment them and the only nice foods are brightly-coloured, sickly-sweet or deep-fried.
    • I can't abide the sickly sweet flavour of parsnips.
    • Please don't bring any more of that sickly-sweet pink fizz, even if it is six bottles for a tenner.
    • The sickly-sweet smell made her head spin.
    • The stench of the plume of smoke is sickly-sweet; everyone knows what it is but no one says so.
    • She tasted of sickly-sweet bugglegum.
    • We also ordered a side salad with a dressing which was almost sickly sweet.
    • The portion was small, the sauce bland and sickly-sweet, and the vegetables not fresh but either frozen or tinned.
    • I'd love to report on the puddings - sickly-sweet baklava is a favourite of mine - but I was simply too full to even contemplate another course.
    • I have spent most of the evening drinking a sickly-sweet fluid that, if the bottle is to be believed, is 'Olde English Mead'.
    1. 1.1 Excessively sentimental or mawkish.
      a sickly-sweet teen road-trip movie
      Example sentencesExamples
      • I ended up giggling at the dreadful sickly-sweet quotes in a display of small 'Thoughts for your...' books.
      • It has gone down a storm with US critics, who have treated its hilarity like a breath of fresh air, amid the glut of sickly-sweet children's movies which traditionally pack out cinemas this time of the year.
      • The music the band played was as far removed from the sickly-sweet pap produced by Taiwan's contemporary pop icons as is possible.
      • The show offers a refreshing antidote to the sickly-sweet moral tales so often associated with children's TV and is all the better for it.
      • The song is melodic enough but lacks the impetus of other tracks due to over production and sickly-sweet vocals.
      • Some may find it all too sickly-sweet, but close your eyes, lie back and wallow, and you will find it is a record of utterly seductive beauty.
      • They tell us how sickly sweet we are together.
      • I found this novel to contain more bittersweet than sickly sweet parts.
      • The tales mix magic with moments that are both funny and scary, steering clear of the sickly-sweet stories we have been fed for years.
      • This is a serious disappointment for those who wish to peer beyond the film's own intentionally sickly-sweet facade.
      • It's mind-bendingly bland in a way only American mainstream music can be, shrink-wrapped in a sickly-sweet sheen of "feeling" yet lacking any heart or life or soul.
      • It was a local L. A. morning affair with two sickly-sweet, Barbie & Ken hosts.
      • In my opinion he is an economic ignoramus and a political opportunist, all wrapped up in a sickly-sweet package designed to appeal to the worst kind of tabloid consumers.
      • This is a refreshing antithesis to the sickly-sweet, tasteless chart pop currently dominating the Top-40.
      • She exudes a poetry and strength that never falls into the trap of sickly-sweet cliché.
      • "I believe Lydia has adopted her maiden name once again, since her husband is no longer with us," said Elizabeth with a sickly-sweet smile.
      • Even during rather tense scenes, the music was sickly sweet, laid on thick with little subtlety.
      • They smile their sickly-sweet imported smiles as they welcome you or bid you goodbye and try to look and sound sincere.
      • I'm fine just churning out the same sickly-sweet, mass-produced pop albums year after year and collecting my fat paycheck.
      • Depending on your viewpoint, this was either a ghastly, sickly-sweet, cheaply made sitcom of the worst kind, or a harmless slice of apple-pie America.
      Synonyms
      banal, trite, hackneyed, commonplace, clichéd, predictable, stereotyped, platitudinous, inane, fatuous, vapid, jejune, weak, feeble, tired, stale, overworked, overused, well worn

Definition of sickly-sweet in US English:

sickly-sweet

adjectiveˈsiklēswētˈsɪkliswit
  • 1Excessively or unpleasantly sweet.

    sickly-sweet marshmallow
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The old building has been given over to student accommodation (think unmade beds, think unwashed plates, think mysterious sickly-sweet smoke).
    • It was fine until I lifted the bag, which then spilled its contents all over the floor and all over me in a slimy, sickly-sweet smelling deluge.
    • I have spent most of the evening drinking a sickly-sweet fluid that, if the bottle is to be believed, is 'Olde English Mead'.
    • Please don't bring any more of that sickly-sweet pink fizz, even if it is six bottles for a tenner.
    • She tasted of sickly-sweet bugglegum.
    • It does produce small black fruit favored by some birds, and, in early summer, barely visible racemes of white flowers with an overpowering, sickly-sweet scent.
    • The recipe for this super-rich, sickly-sweet treat of a pie is not available online but I can easily tell you how to make it and you can experiment.
    • Her face was covered with a sickly-sweet smelling cloth and she drifted into unconsciousness.
    • In the West Indies they make a really sickly sweet potato pudding.
    • I'd love to report on the puddings - sickly-sweet baklava is a favourite of mine - but I was simply too full to even contemplate another course.
    • We also ordered a side salad with a dressing which was almost sickly sweet.
    • The sickly-sweet smell made her head spin.
    • I can't abide the sickly sweet flavour of parsnips.
    • The stench of the plume of smoke is sickly-sweet; everyone knows what it is but no one says so.
    • Children that age seem to think that vegetables were sent to torment them and the only nice foods are brightly-coloured, sickly-sweet or deep-fried.
    • The vile odour is different from the sickly-sweet sugar beet smell that periodically wafts across the city from the plant.
    • The portion was small, the sauce bland and sickly-sweet, and the vegetables not fresh but either frozen or tinned.
    • The king prawns were big, succulent specimens, but the honey-and-ginger sauce was a sickly-sweet, gelatinous mess.
    • I LOATHE the new-fangled, sickly sweet, vodka-based mixes with silly names that fill the fridges in trendy bars.
    • I would whip up huge batches of sickly-sweet chocolate crispies and flog them along with weak orange squash in paper cups for 15p each.
    1. 1.1 Excessively sentimental or mawkish.
      a sickly-sweet teen road-trip movie
      Example sentencesExamples
      • "I believe Lydia has adopted her maiden name once again, since her husband is no longer with us," said Elizabeth with a sickly-sweet smile.
      • It has gone down a storm with US critics, who have treated its hilarity like a breath of fresh air, amid the glut of sickly-sweet children's movies which traditionally pack out cinemas this time of the year.
      • This is a refreshing antithesis to the sickly-sweet, tasteless chart pop currently dominating the Top-40.
      • Depending on your viewpoint, this was either a ghastly, sickly-sweet, cheaply made sitcom of the worst kind, or a harmless slice of apple-pie America.
      • She exudes a poetry and strength that never falls into the trap of sickly-sweet cliché.
      • They tell us how sickly sweet we are together.
      • It's mind-bendingly bland in a way only American mainstream music can be, shrink-wrapped in a sickly-sweet sheen of "feeling" yet lacking any heart or life or soul.
      • The music the band played was as far removed from the sickly-sweet pap produced by Taiwan's contemporary pop icons as is possible.
      • The song is melodic enough but lacks the impetus of other tracks due to over production and sickly-sweet vocals.
      • Some may find it all too sickly-sweet, but close your eyes, lie back and wallow, and you will find it is a record of utterly seductive beauty.
      • This is a serious disappointment for those who wish to peer beyond the film's own intentionally sickly-sweet facade.
      • They smile their sickly-sweet imported smiles as they welcome you or bid you goodbye and try to look and sound sincere.
      • The show offers a refreshing antidote to the sickly-sweet moral tales so often associated with children's TV and is all the better for it.
      • In my opinion he is an economic ignoramus and a political opportunist, all wrapped up in a sickly-sweet package designed to appeal to the worst kind of tabloid consumers.
      • I'm fine just churning out the same sickly-sweet, mass-produced pop albums year after year and collecting my fat paycheck.
      • I ended up giggling at the dreadful sickly-sweet quotes in a display of small 'Thoughts for your...' books.
      • Even during rather tense scenes, the music was sickly sweet, laid on thick with little subtlety.
      • It was a local L. A. morning affair with two sickly-sweet, Barbie & Ken hosts.
      • The tales mix magic with moments that are both funny and scary, steering clear of the sickly-sweet stories we have been fed for years.
      • I found this novel to contain more bittersweet than sickly sweet parts.
      Synonyms
      banal, trite, hackneyed, commonplace, clichéd, predictable, stereotyped, platitudinous, inane, fatuous, vapid, jejune, weak, feeble, tired, stale, overworked, overused, well worn
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