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  • adjective Alternative spelling of sickly sweet.

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Examples

  • Breaking: Throw-away blog post spurs stupid, ignorant and/or sickly-sweet comments!

    Discourse.net: Keeping an Eye on the Big Story 2009

  • Given his obvious fondness for the dark and twisted, it's ironic that writer-producer Ryan Murphy's biggest hit to date has been the sickly-sweet issue machine that Glee Thu, 9pm, Sky1 often finds itself turning into.

    It's a good week for … Ryan Murphy 2011

  • Did the sickly-sweet smoke from the aromatherapy candles choke your personality?

    My Dead Penny Goring 2011

  • They smelled like corpses—the sickly-sweet odor of decay.

    THE FORBIDDEN GAME L.J. SMITH 2010

  • They smelled like corpses—the sickly-sweet odor of decay.

    THE FORBIDDEN GAME L.J. SMITH 2010

  • Gone are the days when you needed to choke down sickly-sweet Concord grape, choose from Cabernets, Merlots, Chardonnays, Rieslings, and then if you must have sweet wine, try some specially vinted for dessert.

    This Week at the 16th Street J « The Blog at 16th and Q 2008

  • “Happy birthday,” one of the other girls said to me with a sickly-sweet fake smile.

    At First Sight CATHERINE HAPKA 2010

  • Newsnight showed to sickly-sweet guff at the Democrat convention.

    VCI Studies -An Academic Post Newmania 2008

  • “Happy birthday,” one of the other girls said to me with a sickly-sweet fake smile.

    At First Sight CATHERINE HAPKA 2010

  • We will storm the gentrified neighborhoods of America's cities, hurling Frappuccino Molotovs into the open cockpits of convertible Mini Coopers and Volkswagen Beetles, where they will explode in sickly-sweet frothiness.

    The Secret to Success: Crawling Before You Can Walk BikeSnobNYC 2010

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