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Apt to cause satiety or loathing; nauseous; disgusting.

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  1. a. Apt to cause satiety or loathing; nauseous; disgusting.
  2. a. Easily disgusted; squeamish; sentimentally fastidious.
  3. adj. effusively or insincerely emotional
  4. 1. Apt to cause satiety or loathing; nauseous; disgusting. So sweetly mawkish', and so smoothly dull. Pope. 2. Easily disgusted; squeamish; sentimentally fastidious. J. H. Newman.
  5. j:100 s effusively or insincerely emotional