(v. t.) To glut, or satisfy, as the appetite; to satiate; to fill to loathing; to surfeit.
(v. t.) To penetrate or pierce; to wound.
(v. t.) To spike, as a cannon.
(v. t.) To stroke with a claw.
Example Sentences:
(1) "A syrupy drizzle of prettiness covers this cloying movie," wrote the Guardian's Peter Bradshaw .
(2) On top of the succession, that child would be the first direct female link to not only the heaving emotional tsunami that was Diana, but also the cloying sense of public ownership of Diana.
(3) Some mentioned a macho, sexist culture, and others said they felt patronised by a cloying paternalism.
(4) You can structure your sweet eating so that every mouthful contains cloying pink goo.
(5) Given that what gets on my wick is precisely that kind of vacuous waffle, allow me to illuminate you all: Teavana Oprah Chai is merely vaguely spicy, very sweet tea that would be instantly forgettable if it wasn’t so queasily cloying.
(6) Many people were suspicious of this alien seed which announces itself with its all-pervasive perfume, reminiscent of honey to some, cloyingly sweet and as sickly as regurgitated baby milk to others.
(7) Still cloyingly submissive you'll be pleased to know.
(8) The word "foodie", it is true, lays claim to a kind of cloying, infantile cuteness which is in a way appropriate to its subject; but one should not allow them the rhetorical claim of harmless innocence implied.
(9) There is no need for cloying nostalgia, but let's get it in perspective.
(10) Of course, other fruit can be used in place of the rhubarb, but sharp fruits are best to avoid a cloying sweetness.
(11) The relentless barrage of wellness and self-improvement-focused tourism can border on the cloying (after a delicately-spiced breakfast of quinoa and almond milk at ChocolaTree, I find myself all but begging a waitress at a nearby downmarket diner to give me the strongest, worst-quality filter coffee she can find).
(12) The VMAs have gone from provocative and shambolic in the 80s and 90s to a cloyingly sweet, backslapping circle jerk, so Minaj’s sore-loser honesty felt refreshing.
(13) I was scheduled for an op, on the following Thursday, and allowed, with cloying reluctance, to go home.
(14) Gilbert, like Murland, wants a timely reconsideration of the facts: "In the war's immediate aftermath, it was completely understandable it should be treated as something of the greatest reverence, but 100 years on this continuing reverence has lost its original grief-laden meaning in favour of an increasingly cloying sentimentality," he said, adding: "The first world war should be considered within a chronological continuum, and not as an event outside history itself."
(15) This was a tiny inflection of independence, cloaked in cloying praise; some kind of last hurrah.
(16) And she enjoys proselytising to her fans, spreading cloying mantras through her music, onstage banter, interviews and tweets, like a bobbed Deepak Chopra for the Twilight generation.
(17) It was a cloying sense of deja vu attached to the team that finished seventh last season, 22 points off the top and drastically in need of some more dynamism.
(18) In many cases lack of street paving, insufficient water, proliferating cesspools and open sewers turned them into cloying, degrading and offensive mires.
(19) It has been tainted for ever with the cloying stain of celebrity, and the only thing tackier than being a celebrity is looking like a celebrity copycat.
Satisfy
Definition:
(a.) In general, to fill up the measure of a want of (a person or a thing); hence, to grafity fully the desire of; to make content; to supply to the full, or so far as to give contentment with what is wished for.
(a.) To pay to the extent of claims or deserts; to give what is due to; as, to satisfy a creditor.
(a.) To answer or discharge, as a claim, debt, legal demand, or the like; to give compensation for; to pay off; to requite; as, to satisfy a claim or an execution.
(a.) To free from doubt, suspense, or uncertainty; to give assurance to; to set at rest the mind of; to convince; as, to satisfy one's self by inquiry.
(v. i.) To give satisfaction; to afford gratification; to leave nothing to be desired.
(v. i.) To make payment or atonement; to atone.
Example Sentences:
(1) Matthias Müller, VW’s chief executive, said: “In light of the wide range of challenges we are currently facing, we are satisfied overall with the start we have made to what will undoubtedly be a demanding fiscal year 2016.
(2) Follow-up for half of the cases operated extended up to 2 years, the longest being up to 5 years, showed that 96% of the patients were satisfied.
(3) The ophthalmic headache's crisis is caused, in fact, by a spasm of convergence on an unknown exophory of which the amplitude of fusion is satisfying, and the presence of which can only be seen with test under screen.
(4) It is suggested that children may learn enough to satisfy their parents' expectations by this age or grade.
(5) There are questions with regard to the interpretation of some of the newer content scales of the MMPI-2, whereas most clinicians feel comfortably familiar, even if not entirely satisfied, with the Wiggins Content Scales of the MMPI.
(6) Most respondents (46, 95%) were satisfied with life in general.
(7) Although 95% of the patients are satisfied, 60% have some impairment of sensation in the lower lip.
(8) "It is very satisfying work," says the 28-year-old, who earns a net monthly salary of 23,000 kwatcha ($80), probably one of the highest incomes in the village.
(9) Twenty-two of them could be shown to satisfy the Poisson law.
(10) I could just banish the app from my phone forever, but deleting a piece of smart tech that makes my life easier doesn’t feel very satisfying.
(11) Epidemiological criteria for a causal association between snoring and vascular disease have not been satisfied.
(12) All are satisfied by [Formula: see text], where N is the size of rod signal, constant for threshold; theta, theta(D) are steady backgrounds of light and receptor noise; varphi is the threshold flash with sigma a constant of about 2.5 log td sec; B the fraction of pigment in the bleached state.
(13) Whereas on the Self-Cathexis Scale, 45% (N = 9) were satisfied and 55% (N = 11) were dissatisfied with self.
(14) Response latency has been shown to satisfy the first two of these conditions.
(15) He was also satisfied he had joined in racist chanting.
(16) If you can't give them everything at once, you may be able to satisfy at least some of the items on their wish list.
(17) Thus, despite the apparently higher level of pyruvate production in the NPC, exogenous pyruvate is necessary to satisfy the metabolic needs of NPC.
(18) Pain relief was very good, and the patients were generally satisfied.
(19) A method was developed for the preparation of a standard source to satisfy the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission requirement for calibration of wipe-assay procedures used in nuclear medicine laboratories.
(20) The most important basis for evaluating an assistive device is whether it satisfies the needs of the disabled consumer.