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noncloying

noncloying adjective: not cloying.

Adjective

noncloying (not comparable)

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

Origin of noncloying

From non- + cloying.

Questions about noncloying

What does noncloying mean?
Noncloying means not cloying.
What part of speech is noncloying?
Noncloying is an adjective.

Words near noncloying in the dictionary

  1. nonclothed
  2. nonclothing
  3. nonclotted
  4. nonclotting
  5. noncloudy
  6. noncloying
  7. nonclub
  8. nonclumped
  9. nonclumping
  10. nonclumpy
  11. nonclumsy

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