sweet as pie
Cloyingly nice demeanor
Sweet as pie describes someone who is extremely pleasant, kind, or charming—often disarmingly so.
The phrase draws on pie's associations with comfort and indulgence.
It can be straightforwardly complimentary: My grandmother is sweet as pie.
But it sometimes implies suspicion that the sweetness is excessive or calculated: She acted sweet as pie until she got what she wanted.
Arousing fondness or affection
- adorableExtremely endearing
- lovableInspiring warm feelings
- delightfulHighly pleasing, wonderful
- winsomeSweetly charming
enchanting · captivating · appealing · heartwarming · darling · precious · wholesome · angelic
Exaggeratedly sentimental
- cloyingExcessively sweet or sentimental
- insincereFeigning belief or feeling
- disingenuousFeigning ignorance or innocence
- duplicitousDeliberately deceptive in nature
two-faced · manipulative · smooth-talking · slick · calculating · cunning · sly · guileful
Servilely flattering
- fawningExcessive insincere flattery
- obsequiousServilely attentive to superiors
- unctuousExcessively and insincerely earnest
- smarmyInsincerely ingratiating
flattering · bootlicking · toadying · groveling · servile · oleaginous · brown-nosing · apple-polishing
endearing
Arousing fondness or affection
- adorableExtremely endearing
- lovableInspiring warm feelings
- delightfulHighly pleasing, wonderful
winsome · enchanting · captivating · appealing · heartwarming · darling · precious · wholesome · angelic · innocent
saccharine
Exaggeratedly sentimental
- cloyingExcessively sweet or sentimental
- insincereFeigning belief or feeling
- disingenuousFeigning ignorance or innocence
duplicitous · two-faced · manipulative · smooth-talking · slick · calculating · cunning · sly · guileful · artful
sycophantic
Servilely flattering
- fawningExcessive insincere flattery
- obsequiousServilely attentive to superiors
- unctuousExcessively and insincerely earnest
smarmy · flattering · bootlicking · toadying · groveling · servile · oleaginous · brown-nosing · apple-polishing · simpering
- folk sayingsproverb, adage, maxim, folk saying, old saying
- food idiomspiece of cake, bread winner, low-hanging fruit, cool as a cucumber, bad egg
sweet as piebrutally honest
sweet, pie, sweeten, sweetly, sweetness, sweeter, sweetest, sweetener, sweetening