saccharine

IPA: sˈækɝaɪn

(dated) Something which is saccharine or sweet; sugar.
(figurative) Sentimentalism.
Alternative spelling of saccharin [(chemistry) A white, crystalline powder, C₇H₅NO₃S, used as an artificial sweetener in food products.]

(dated) Of or relating to sugar; sugary.
(dated) Containing a large or excessive amount of sugar.
(figurative, derogatory) Excessively sweet in action or disposition, especially if romantic or sentimental to the point of ridiculousness; sickly sweet, syrupy.
(chiefly botany, geology) Resembling granulated sugar; saccharoid.
Of or relating to saccharin (“a white, crystalline powder, C₇H₅NO₃S, used as an artificial sweetener in food products”).

Examples of "saccharine" in Sentences

Chocolates contain saccharine.
Her compliments sounds too saccharine.
The taste of chocolate icecream was saccharine.
Our article states that it was disgracefully saccharine sweet.
Additionally, the prose of the article is somewhat saccharine.
So Obama's "saccharine" speech was about as realpolitik as it gets.
That doesn't mean that workers need to be saccharine sweet and never disagree.
Here is the same kind of saccharine melody that makes mawkish the trio in the "Marche Funebre."
And that requires exactly the kind of diplomacy Brooks dismisses merely as "saccharine" fairytales.
We are donating the technology of feeding with protein honey, and we are donating the technology of saccharine, which is very easy and simple to produce.
Empathy without saccharine is just the perfect recipe for me, and I felt so much better after talking with her, someone who really knows me better than almost anyone.
And new love, full of magic and promise can in the next moment teeter on the brink of becoming too "saccharine" or blowing up, melting down or drowning in bitter tears.
"I've always known girls from the South could get a bad rap for being kind of saccharine, but Palmetto should have taken out a patent on its own brand of artificiality," she muses.
This early work is that of a young man still coming to terms with his sexuality and politics; there is a gentle, tentative longing here that would border on the saccharine were the poet not so evidently and deeply invested in every line.