What's the difference between cloying and treacly?
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.
Treacly
Definition:
(a.) Like, or composed of, treacle.
Example Sentences:
(1) Sundew use beads of treacly glue to trap flies on their finger-like leaves.
(2) Despite some adverse reviews – the Guardian's Peter Bradshaw called it a "treacly, tepid heartwarmer" – One Chance represents a significant step forward for the film-making ambitions of BGT co-creator Simon Cowell.
(3) On immobilized rabbits during long-term electrical stimulation of the negative defence emotiogenic centers of the hypothalamus there was treaced development of the arterial hypertension from a transient phase of the struggle between pressor and depressor mechanisms to the phase of a stable dominance of pressor influences and effect on heart activity, including development of a sharp myocardial infarction.
(4) Life rolls along at a treacly pace; there’s an unnerving stillness to the landscape.
(5) Blur won that particular battle, but lost the war badly when their rivals' treacly 'Wonderwall' shot them through the roof.
(6) In 1971, Cash recorded the Man In Black album, the title song containing a somewhat melodramatic declaration of intent: "I wear the black for the poor and the beaten down, living in the hopeless, hungry side of town I wear it for the prisoner who has long paid for his crime... " Cash was growing into his persona as American icon and beacon of integrity, even if there were those who found the Johnny and June act somewhat overloaded with treacly religiosity.
(7) Where to eat There are treacly, spice-filled Dona Amélia tartlets to be scoffed (through a mist of icing sugar) at O Forno (Rua São João 67), and groceries to be bought for the pleasure of it in Basilio Simões ’ atmospheric old emporium on Rua Direita.
(8) Because, surely, that treacly sentiment is a lie: no sibling relationship would emerge psychically unscathed from such a contest as the one that David and Ed fought.