Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Cloyingly sweet or sentimental.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Composed of or like treacle abounding in treacle; sweet and viscous.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Like, or composed of, treacle.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective of a liquid
thick andsticky - adjective consisting of
treacle , orcloying sentimental speech
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective overly sweet
Etymologies
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Examples
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The Anglican Church of Canada immersed in treacly conversation
The Anglican Church of Canada immersed in treacly conversation « Anglican Samizdat 2010
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The Anglican Church of Canada immersed in treacly conversation « Anglican Samizdat
The Anglican Church of Canada immersed in treacly conversation « Anglican Samizdat 2010
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He threw back his head, cleared his tight throat sonorously, and began, in tones perhaps best described as treacly, to address the seated company, with an intention also towards the larger audience without.
In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India Herbert Strang
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To describe most of them as "treacly" would be kind (take this one, for example).
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Besides, you're positively glowing already and it could get kind of treacly for your friends and colleagues there for a while.
If you were getting married, would you want a wedding? Ann Althouse 2009
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I suspect that Wood is banging his head against the wall of his own limited view of literature -- in other words, anything that isn't "treacly" or "hysterical realism."
IN WHICH HEROES STUMBLE TEV 2005
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Walking into the Midtown Diner with Chuck Barris on Presidents 'Day was like walking onto a television set for the kind of treacly special that Mr. Barris probably never would have produced in his television days: something called maybe Chuck Barris' Holiday Homecoming, or Chuck Barris 'Triumphant Foray From His Apartment.
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But Norman says she has rejected countless pitches for "treacly" or "preachy" programming that might prove a turnoff to viewers: "It's not going to be spinach."
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At some point somebody wrote some kind of treacly religious pap about the “significance of the folds in the flag” there isn’t any – they’re just folds, and the group has been reciting it at the funerals while they fold the flag.
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At some point somebody wrote some kind of treacly religious pap about the “significance of the folds in the flag” there isn’t any – they’re just folds, and the group has been reciting it at the funerals while they fold the flag.
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