saccharine
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- s overly sweet
- Which is not to say he's snide; Friendly Ghost and Woman Driving, Man Sleeping are as sweet as anything in the James Taylor songbook - they're just not saccharine.
- Candidates, knowing that senior citizens flock to the polls with a vengeance, have responded with saccharine rhetoric.
- Nostalgic without being saccharine, the art has the look of old baseball cards put together to tell a story.