saccharine
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It’s a deceptively saccharine world, one that she sees as, in her words, a “poisonous lollipop.”
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 16, 2025
So are saccharine dishes like the cranberry orange relish that Michael Donnelly-Boylen sweetened with long pours of sugar into a food processor.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 26, 2025
First, good on Mazzulla to straight-up treat the kid as the reporter he clearly is, and answer the question directly, without pandering or turning it into some sort of saccharine after-school special.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025
The coconut flavor from the milk was mild and the drink’s overall sweetness was perfect, not saccharine in the slightest.
From Salon • Jul. 27, 2025
Onto each was dumped swiftly the regulation lunch—metal pannikin of pinkish-gray stew, a hunk of bread, a cube of cheese, a mug of milkless Victory Coffee, and one saccharine tablet.
From "1984" by George Orwell
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