Cloying

A roundly entertaining romantic comedy, “Love Actually” is still nearly as cloying as it is funny.

Bryce Dallas Howard's girlboss stock character, the pair of annoying brothers, and Chris Pratt's cloying bravado don't help.

But is no longer the safe space of cloying cuteness I enjoy.

In it, Plunket transforms Dorothy Rodgers into a clueless and cloying Bronxville housewife, Mimi Smithers.

It reads overly sweet and cloying, doesn’t it, this carnival of syrups and sauces.

The film never comes off as cloying or manipulative because McQueen knows he doesn’t need to push for “emotional” moments.

I don’t know Notkin, but I admired her dignity in carefully listening to Baldacci and eloquently pushing back against his cloying, disingenuous arguments.

The woman is cloying and the true winners are the men nwho are fortunate and lucky enough to leave early.

Think of all the perfectly corny yet cloying titles this potential holiday blockbuster can have.

Reuniting with past collaborators (including Ben Affleck) and other famous faces to redo almost beat-for-beat, it's cloying and self-indulgent, but it's with touching performances from Mewes and Harley Quinn Smith.

And it’s very sweet on the palate, cloying almost, with little kick to it.

However, cauliflower cheese looks cloying.

In retrospect, ’s expositional approach may seem a bit cloying, but that’s only because Kuenne is willing to tell a story with all the disconsolate surprise of the tragedy itself.

On the urgent and cloying “Personal Hell,” her singing sounds simultaneously like a kiddie nursery rhyme and a tragic faux opera.

It was cloying stuff, post-emo fluff piled on saccharine funk.

It was rich without being cloying, rinsed nicely and left my hair manageable.

Meghan thrives in the public eye — but not in a cloying, thirsty way.

That song is cloying garbage used to fill up sad musical sequences on hospital shows.

Again, hop presence is low to undetectable, providing just enough bitterness so that the sweetness is not cloying and the aftertaste is muted.

The character is notable for his cloying humility, obsequiousness, and insincerity, making frequent references to his own "humbleness".