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treacley

treacley is the alternative form of treacly.

Meaning of treacly

Adjective

treacly (comparative treaclier, superlative treacliest)

  1. Of a liquid, thick and sticky.
    Synonyms:
    syrupy
  2. Consisting of treacle, or cloying, sentimental speech.
    • Some call the subgenre “alternative Christmas,” as it’s a subgenre of Christmas movies that tend to eschew the saccharine good times most frequently promised by treacly holiday fare in favor of violent action, horror or gore.2016 December 22, Witney Seibold, “The Sublime Satire of Gremlins 2: The New Batch”, in New Beverly Cinema Blog

Forms of treacley

comparativemore treacley
superlativemost treacley

Questions about treacley

What is treacley the alternative form of?
Treacley is the alternative form of treacly.

Words near treacley in the dictionary

  1. treaclelike
  2. treacler
  3. treaclers
  4. treacles
  5. treaclewort
  6. treacley
  7. treaclier
  8. treacliest
  9. treacliness
  10. treacling
  11. treacly

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Adapted from Wiktionary: treacley (page history and authors); treacly (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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