oversweet

adjective

over·sweet ˌō-vər-ˈswēt

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: excessively sweet : cloying

an oversweet sauce

oversweet sentiment

The luscious innuendo of it, almost startling, lingered in the room, after the visitors had gone, like an oversweet fragrance.—

Henry James

oversweetness

ˌō-vər-ˈswēt-nəs

noun

Samples tasted recently were superbly rich-flavored and winy, with a pleasing tannic tinge and a lingering aftertaste, but without cloying oversweetness. —

David Karp

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