treacly.

1. Resembling treacle in thickness, stickiness, or sweetness.

2. Excessively sweet or sentimental in manner, language, or artistic treatment.

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Words that belong together

• a treacly consistency
• treacly sweetness

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The treacly liquid clung to the spoon before falling in a slow thread.

She balanced the dessert’s treacly sweetness with a sharper fruit.

Usage notes

Primary category: sensory / description. Forms: Comparative more treacly; superlative most treacly where gradation is meaningful. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.