noncloying en · ADJ
Etymology
From non- + cloying.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Not 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: