saccharine
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Stories about friendships between animals must walk a fine line between the sweet and the saccharine.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026
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
And though he’s undeniably quixotic, PTA’s relentless urgency consistently overrides the sticky trappings of saccharine sentimentality that would snare less ambitious filmmakers.
From Salon • Sep. 28, 2025
But don't expect saccharine stories of romance - this is Welsh, after all.
From BBC • Jul. 10, 2025
Ideally, this value should be infinite, but when it can’t be, let’s hold the saccharine sentiments.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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