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• s  overly sweet

• I haven't done a proper review of the show, so consider this simply a warning: the show is as as dated and treacly as you may have guessed if you've seen previews.
• Her name is Marabel Morgan, and her sole transgression is that she is the author of two treacly and wildly popular books, Total Woman and its newly released sequel Total Joy, which .
• It smacks of treacly dotcomism.

• cloying
• saccharine
• syrupy

News & Articles

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• ‘Sleeping’ stars fine bedfellows
  Set to Tchaikovsky’s beloved score, “The Sleeping Beauty” — first danced in 1890, and ballet’s jewel in the crown — has outlasted fairy-tale Princess Aurora’s hundred-year nap. And while American Ballet Theatre’s treacly 2007 version is sadly cubic zirconium, Tuesday’s stars shone like diamonds in a paste...
  July 4, 2013 - New York Post

Quotes

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• Sarah Jessica Parker in OK! Magazine
  Sarah says her hubby has a built-in BS detector: "He's kind of immune to anything that even stank of being treacly or insipid," she explains.
• Larry David in PopEater
  ...next season will pick up where the last left off, David said, adding that if it's the show's last hurrah, he won't prepare fans beforehand, a la 'Lost.' "It just makes the whole thing kind of treacly. I don't like it. I don't want that....
• Daniel Alarcón in calendarlive.com
  There's a real radio show in Lima, called 'Busca Personas,' - People Finders,Alarcón said. "The show itself is frankly a little schmaltzy, a little treacly. They pretty much set up a reunion every week. But every now and then, behind the...