noncloying

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

non- +‎ cloying

Adjective[edit]

noncloying (not comparable)

  1. Not cloying.
    • 2007 September 2, Nate Chinen, “That Ticking Sound? It’s Beck’s New Single”, in New York Times[1]:
      He and his partners, the trumpeter Marvin Stamm and the cellist Alisa Horn, manage to imbue the material with a noncloying kind of romance.