treacly

IPA: trˈɛtʃɫi

adjective

  • (of a liquid) thick and sticky
  • consisting of treacle, or cloying sentimental speech
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Examples of "treacly" in Sentences

  • The Anglican Church of Canada immersed in treacly conversation
  • To describe most of them as "treacly" would be kind (take this one, for example).
  • The Anglican Church of Canada immersed in treacly conversation « Anglican Samizdat
  • Besides, you're positively glowing already and it could get kind of treacly for your friends and colleagues there for a while.
  • But Norman says she has rejected countless pitches for "treacly" or "preachy" programming that might prove a turnoff to viewers: "It's not going to be spinach."
  • I suspect that Wood is banging his head against the wall of his own limited view of literature -- in other words, anything that isn't "treacly" or "hysterical realism."
  • He threw back his head, cleared his tight throat sonorously, and began, in tones perhaps best described as treacly, to address the seated company, with an intention also towards the larger audience without.
  • At some point somebody wrote some kind of treacly religious pap about the “significance of the folds in the flag” there isn’t any – they’re just folds, and the group has been reciting it at the funerals while they fold the flag.
  • Walking into the Midtown Diner with Chuck Barris on Presidents 'Day was like walking onto a television set for the kind of treacly special that Mr. Barris probably never would have produced in his television days: something called maybe Chuck Barris' Holiday Homecoming, or Chuck Barris 'Triumphant Foray From His Apartment.

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