cloying

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of cloy

adj

1. Unpleasantly excessive.

   “The cloying fondness she displayed was what, in the end, drove me away.”

   “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.”

2. Excessively sweet.

   “Oliver (Barry Keoghan): I don't normally like chocolate cake. / Elspeth (Rosamund Pike): Yes, it can be cloying, can't it?”