hypersaccharine

English

Etymology

From hyper- +‎ saccharine.

Adjective

hypersaccharine (comparative more hypersaccharine, superlative most hypersaccharine)

1. (figuratively) Very saccharine; excessively sweet.
   • 1998 December 14, “Hey Rick, You’re So Fine, You Blow My Mind, Hey Rick”, in New York‎^[1]:

     It’s some of the best plastic surgery this century. That or demonic possession: Surely age alone is insufficient to explain Rick(y) Schroder’s transformation from hypersaccharine sitcom munchkin to tough-talking adult of no more than average munchkinliness.

   • 2023 July 10, Zachary Woolfe, “Review: Ted Hearne’s Sweet, Sad American Elegy”, in The New York Times‎^[2]:

     The singing is sometimes pure and sometimes processed into exaggeratedly AutoTuned “Alvin and the Chipmunks” automation. On guitars, keyboards, percussion and electronics, the six instrumentalists also veer from moody industrial rock and elegiac synth drones to jittery, hypersaccharine pop.