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sweet as pie

sweet as pie adjective: extremely sweet (in the sense of cute, lovely).

Adjective

sweet as pie (not comparable)

  1. (simile) Extremely sweet (in the sense of cute, lovely).
    • this woman was a freaking saint. Okay?[…]after a lifetime of being sweet as pie, once Grandpa died, she got kinda ornery.2013, Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke, Before Midnight (motion picture), spoken by Jesse (Ethan Hawke)

Questions about sweet as pie

What does sweet as pie mean?
Sweet as pie means extremely sweet (in the sense of cute, lovely).
What part of speech is sweet as pie?
Sweet as pie is an adjective.

Words near sweet as pie in the dictionary

  1. sweet annie
  2. sweet annies
  3. sweet as
  4. sweet as a nut
  5. sweet as candy
  6. sweet as pie
  7. sweet azalea
  8. sweet azaleas
  9. sweet ball
  10. sweet balls
  11. sweet band

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