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noun ADJ. chewy, sugary | boiled QUANT. bag, box, packet, tube VERB + SWEET eat, suck sucking a boiled sweet SWEET + NOUN shop, adj. tasting like sugar/smelling pleasant VERBS be, smell, taste The air smelled sweet and clean. | make sth | find sth I found the dessert a bit sweet for my taste. ADV. extremely, very | a bit, quite, rather, slightly | enough Is the tea sweet enough for you? | sickly an overpowering, sickly sweet smell nice VERBS be, look | keep sb (informal) He'd promised her a new car, just to keep her sweet (= keep her in a good mood). ADV. awfully, really, terribly, very | quite, rather PREP. to She was really sweet to me. PHRASES sweet little a rather sweet little cottage
Oxford Collocations Dictionary
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sweet
sweet food or drink has had sugar added or contains natural sugars:
• Italian oranges are very sweet. • a cup of hot sweet tea
sugary
sweet because a lot of sugar has been added:
• Sugary foods are bad for your teeth.
sickly
British English tasting unpleasantly sweet:
• The dessert was rather sweet and sickly. • a sickly sweet fruit drink
cloying
tasting or smelling unpleasantly sweet:
• I find strawberry and peach drinks too cloying. • the cloying smell of fish oil
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