chocolate-box
Sickeningly sweet scenery
Chocolate-box describes something pretty in a sentimental, idealized way—like the pictures on fancy candy boxes.
A chocolate-box cottage or chocolate-box village looks quaint and picturesque, perhaps too perfect to be real.
The term is mildly dismissive, suggesting superficial prettiness over substance: The painting was dismissed as chocolate-box art.
Expensive edible fungi
- bonbonsFilled chocolate confections
- pralinesNut-studded sugar confections
- ganacheChocolate-cream confection blend
- assortmentMixed collection of things
selection · gift box · ribbon · caramels · nougat · marzipan · cordials · dragées
Excessively emotional about memories
- cloyingExcessively sweet or sentimental
- schmaltzyExcessively and insincerely sentimental
- mawkishUnpleasantly overemotional
- syrupyExcessively sweet or sentimental
sugary · sappy · overwrought · prettified · idealized · romanticized · kitsch · tacky
truffles
Expensive edible fungi
- bonbonsFilled chocolate confections
- pralinesNut-studded sugar confections
- ganacheChocolate-cream confection blend
assortment · selection · gift box · ribbon · caramels · nougat · marzipan · cordials · dragées · sampler
sentimental
Excessively emotional about memories
- cloyingExcessively sweet or sentimental
- schmaltzyExcessively and insincerely sentimental
- mawkishUnpleasantly overemotional
syrupy · sugary · sappy · overwrought · prettified · idealized · romanticized · kitsch · tacky · overdone
cottage
Small rural home
- villageSmall rural community
- thatched roofStraw or reed covering
- quaintAttractively unfamiliar, outdated
idyllic · English countryside · scenic · charming · pretty · bucolic · cozy · storybook · twee · manicured
chocolate-boxgritty
Coarse or courageous
authentic · realistic · raw · unvarnished · warts-and-all
chocolate-boxedgy
Tense and irritable
challenging · provocative · hard-hitting · unsentimental · unromantic
chocolate, chocolates, chocolatey, chocolatier, boxing, boxers