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saccharine
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saccharine as in:  saccharine sentiment

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  • He picked up bottles of saccharine, bottles of syrup, bottles of corn oil, and hefted them and set them down again.†   (source)
  • "I think so too," said Chablis, a saccharine sweetness creeping into her voice, "and she's always wanted to be a debutante.†   (source)
  • "My dear Prince Regent," Levana said in a saccharine voice, "may I be the first to offer my condolences on the loss of your father, the good Emperor Rikan.†   (source)
  • A clunking sound in his ear followed by saccharine Montavani, which was supposed to make being on hold more pleasant.†   (source)
  • It was a doll's face on the small fragment of porcelain, Claudia's face, a baby face, a saccharine, sweet mockery of innocence an artist had painted there, a child with raven hair like the doll.†   (source)
  • I gave it my utmost effort, channeling all the saccharine schmaltz I could muster from the 1970s.†   (source)
  • As we drive out of town, the sky is the saccharine blue of a baby blanket, filled with puffy cottonball clouds.†   (source)
  • The smell was both astringent and saccharine, these two contrary characteristics coming together in what she'd come to think of as fetor terribilis.†   (source)
  • Then I remembered I was indulging in this revolting display of saccharine emotion right in front of Fang.†   (source)
  • "Because you're so sweet," he says in a mock-saccharine voice.†   (source)
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  • At recess, Cordelia doles out underwear: lavender frills for Miss Pigeon, who's fat and saccharine; plaid for Miss Stuart, lace-edged to go with her hankies; red satin long johns for Miss Hatchett, who's over sixty and wears garnet brooches.†   (source)
  • I knew I was presentable-looking, possessed a spacious and sympathetic intelligence, and had that Southern gift of gab which I was well aware could often cast a sugary (but not saccharine) necromantic charm.†   (source)
  • To claim to 'respect' and even to 'love' the great mass with their yaps at one end and smelly feet at the other requires the fatuous, uncritical, saccharine, blind, sentimental slobbishness found in some nursery supervisors, most spaniel dogs, and all missionaries.†   (source)
  • After this saccharine presentation, the doctor glared at me and asked, "Why are you trying to intimidate us?"†   (source)
  • This time he managed to get it but it was only about the same size to him that a saccharine tablet would be to you, so that when she saw him solemnly rubbing it to and fro across his great red face, she said, "I'm afraid it's not much use to you, Mr. Rumblebuffin."†   (source)
  • Eerily, the taped music comes on over the intercom, saccharine, soporific.†   (source)
  • It was a doll's face on the small fragment of porcelain, Claudia's face, a baby face, a saccharine, sweet mockery of innocence an artist had painted there, a child with raven hair like the doll.†   (source)
  • And the fat, saccharine little cherub would reply, "I'm a sweet little Christian girl who loves the baby Jesus."†   (source)
  • Standing there between his propped arms, Brown began to sing in a saccharine and nasal tenor.†   (source)
  • He had brought an envelope full of Victory Coffee and some saccharine tablets.†   (source)
  • It was saccharine flavored with cloves, the speciality of the café.†   (source)
  • What was even better than the taste of the coffee was the silky texture given to it by the sugar, a thing Winston had almost forgotten after years of saccharine.†   (source)
  • But now I got proof from the most reliable sources — which I have checked on I [Blanche is singing in the bathroom a saccharine popular ballad which is used contrapuntally with Stanley's speech.†   (source)
  • On to each was dumped swiftly the regulation lunch — a metal pannikin of pinkish-grey stew, a hunk of bread, a cube of cheese, a mug of milkless Victory Coffee, and one saccharine tablet.†   (source)
  • The queue edged forward till Winston was almost at the counter, then was held up for two minutes because someone in front was complaining that he had not received his tablet of saccharine.†   (source)
  • Great areas of it, even for a Party member, were neutral and non-political, a matter of slogging through dreary jobs, fighting for a place on the Tube, darning a worn-out sock, cadging a saccharine tablet, saving a cigarette end.†   (source)
  • The cloves and saccharine, themselves disgusting enough in their sickly way, could not disguise the flat oily smell; and what was worst of all was that the smell of gin, which dwelt with him night and day, was inextricably mixed up in his mind with the smell of those.†   (source)
  • Not saccharine, sugar.†   (source)
  • Internally she snarled, "That ought to be saccharine enough."†   (source)
  • That evening, when he was playing poker in his flat with Irving Watters, the school-clinic dentist, and a young doctor from the city clinic, the telephone bell summoned him to an excited but saccharine: "This is Orchid.†   (source)
  • "Saccharine, or turpentine, or any other 'ine, Judge Temple, you have never made a loaf larger than a good-sized sugar-plum," returned the sheriff.†   (source)
  • The expense of food for eight months, namely, from July 4th to March 1st, the time when these estimates were made, though I lived there more than two years—not counting potatoes, a little green corn, and some peas, which I had raised, nor considering the value of what was on hand at the last date—was Rice......$ 1.73 1/2 Molasses......1.73 Cheapest form of the saccharine.†   (source)
  • One might find argument for optimism in the abundant flow of this saccharine element of pleasure in every suburb and extremity of the good world.†   (source)
  • When this important point shall be achieved, it will be in season to turn our attention to an improvement in the manufacture of the article, But thou knowest, Richard, that I have already subjected our sugar to the process of the refiner, and that the result has produced loaves as white as the snow on yon fields, and possessing the saccharine quality in its utmost purity.†   (source)
  • LINDA: And your saccharine?†   (source)
  • WILLY: Yeah, my saccharine.†   (source)
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