sickly sweet

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sickly sweet

adjective more sickly sweet · most sickly sweet

Too sweet; sickeningly sweet or sentimental.
Similar: sticky-sweet, saccharine, sugary, syrupy, treacly, bathetic, cheesy, squishy, corny, drippy, gooey, hokey

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adj too sweet

Español	empalagoso
Français	doucereux
Deutsch	picksüß, zuckersüß

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@misc{sickly_sweet_2026,
  title = {sickly sweet},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/sickly%20sweet},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}