Meanings
adjectivenoncloying (not comparable)
- not comparableNot cloying.
He and his partners, the trumpeter Marvin Stamm and the cellist Alisa Horn, manage to imbue the material with a noncloying kind of romance.
2007 September 2, Nate Chinen, “That Ticking Sound? It’s Beck’s New Single”, in New York Times
Origin
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noncloying. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/noncloying
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“noncloying.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/noncloying. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “noncloying,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/noncloying.
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