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- adjective Alternative spelling of
sickly sweet .
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Examples
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Breaking: Throw-away blog post spurs stupid, ignorant and/or sickly-sweet comments!
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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.
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Did the sickly-sweet smoke from the aromatherapy candles choke your personality?
My Dead Penny Goring 2011
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They smelled like corpses—the sickly-sweet odor of decay.
THE FORBIDDEN GAME L.J. SMITH 2010
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They smelled like corpses—the sickly-sweet odor of decay.
THE FORBIDDEN GAME L.J. SMITH 2010
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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
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“Happy birthday,” one of the other girls said to me with a sickly-sweet fake smile.
At First Sight CATHERINE HAPKA 2010
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Newsnight showed to sickly-sweet guff at the Democrat convention.
VCI Studies -An Academic Post Newmania 2008
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“Happy birthday,” one of the other girls said to me with a sickly-sweet fake smile.
At First Sight CATHERINE HAPKA 2010
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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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