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saccharine

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sac·cha·rine  (skr-n, --rn, --rn)
adj.
1. Of, relating to, or characteristic of sugar or saccharin; sweet.
2. Having a cloyingly sweet attitude, tone, or character: a saccharine smile.
3. Excessively sentimental: "It was enough for him to rely on sentiment . . . and saccharine assertions about The Home" (Kate Millett).
saccha·rine·ly adv.
saccha·rini·ty (--rn-t) n.
saccharine
Adjective
1. excessively sweet or sentimental: saccharine ballads
2. like or containing sugar or saccharin
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.saccharinesaccharine - overly sweet                        
cloying, syrupy, treacly
sweet - having or denoting the characteristic taste of sugar
saccharine
adjective sickly, honeyed, sentimental, sugary, nauseating, soppy Brit. (informal) cloying, maudlin, syrupy (informal) mawkish, icky (informal) treacly, oversweet


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said Claire, on whom these saccharine exchanges were beginning to have a cloying effect.
Uneasy Money by Wodehouse, Pelham Grenville View in context
When this important point shall be achieved, it will be in season to turn our attention to an improvement in the manufacture of the article, But thou knowest, Richard, that I have already subjected our sugar to the process of the refiner, and that the result has produced loaves as white as the snow on yon fields, and possessing the saccharine quality in its utmost purity.
The Pioneers by Cooper, James Fenimore View in context
One might find argument for optimism in the abundant flow of this saccharine element of pleasure in every suburb and extremity of the good world.
Essays, First Series by Emerson, Ralph Waldo View in context
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