What's the difference between cloying and syrupy?

Cloying


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cloy

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.

Syrupy


Definition:

  • (a.) Like sirup, or partaking of its qualities.
  • (a.) Same as Sirup, Sirupy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "A syrupy drizzle of prettiness covers this cloying movie," wrote the Guardian's Peter Bradshaw .
  • (2) The result is a decadent pancake that has the syrupy sweetness associated with gulab jamun , jangiri and other Indian sweets.
  • (3) Let it bubble for a few minutes, or until it looks a bit more … well, syrupy.
  • (4) Continue until the liquid turns slightly syrupy, about 5 or 6 minutes.
  • (5) Increase the heat under the pan and simmer the sauce until thickened and slightly syrupy.
  • (6) The acid production of 10 syrupy medicines sweetened with sucrose, fructose, sorbitol, xylitol and saccharin or with a combination of these was tested.
  • (7) Eight weeks after BP's well ruptured, the full impact on marine life became increasingly visible with images of dead and dying hermit crab and brown pelicans trapped and weighed down in dark syrupy oil while spawning of Atlantic bluefin tuna is threatened in the Gulf of Mexico – only one of two places in the world where this happens.
  • (8) Details: thedoctorsorders.com Enter the sublime chambers: Five groundbreaking J Dilla productions Common: Heat (Geffen, 2000) The aptly named Heat vibrates with a brilliantly thick, syrupy Afrobeat feel that is the perfect midpoint between the shimmering burnt-sugar funk of Fela Kuti and the hammer-fall, chicken-scratch soul power of James Brown.
  • (9) Two sweeteners with a syrupy component, maltose and sorbitol, fell further away.
  • (10) On the tongue, well, it's an acquired taste: slightly metallic, syrupy sweet, a faint hint of orange and cream.
  • (11) Add the vinegar, cider, thyme and sugar and reduce over a medium heat until the liquid becomes syrupy.
  • (12) 'Syrupy' solutions of liquid linear polyacrylamide (> or = 10%T, 0%C) appear to be excellent for fractionation of oligonucleotides and, potentially, for DNA sequencing.
  • (13) 1D-1,3,4,5-Tetra-O-allyl-myo-inositol and the above described, relevant diaste reoisomers were converted into 1D-2,6-di-O-benzyl-myo-inositol which gave the syrupy octabenzyl ester of 1D-2,6-di-O-benzyl-myo-inositol 1,3,4,5-tetrakisphosphate.
  • (14) When the mixture is syrupy, add the apple and cook until the apple is soft and then add the mustard.
  • (15) His early 60s white R&B band the Fairlanes included guitarist Billy Sherrill, the producer who later pioneered the 1970s "countrypolitan" sound by laying syrupy strings and a whole lot of rhinestones on George'n'Tammy and Charlie Rich, while lead singer Dan Penn , along with fellow FAMEr Spooner Oldham and others, later wrote some of the greatest soul songs of the 60s, including The Dark End Of The Street.
  • (16) Churning out that syrupy gloop is all very well Ant, but it won't put £378 in my wallet.
  • (17) He didn't require a translation, but responded by asking, in a syrupy Viennese accent, " Was ist die Frage? "
  • (18) For comparison, rabbit antisera were also produced against glucagon polymer (GA-10) and syrupy glucagon fibrils (PGA-2).
  • (19) Racemic 1,2,4-tri-O-benzyl-5,6-O-isopropylidene-myo-inositol was prepared by a new route involving crotyl (but-2-enyl) ethers and converted into the (-)-omega-camphanates to give the pure crystalline 1L-diastereoisomer and the chirally impure, syrupy 1D-diastereoisomer.
  • (20) Parents gave daily doses of syrupy medications and elixirs 3-4 times a day and at least two of these doses were given just before or during a designated nap or bedtime.

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