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US
/ˈkɔɹni/
]
[ UK /kˈɔːni/ ]
[ UK /kˈɔːni/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
dull and tiresome but with pretensions of significance or originality
bromidic sermons
bromidic sermons
How To Use corny In A Sentence
- Some of the jokes were rude, others corny, and some a tad funny.
- I want to hear him read some scary fiction or corny old poetry, play his nose flute, then get us all to open our windows and shout, ‘Excelsior, you fatheads!’
- If you can overlook the corny moments and cheesy dialogue, then this has atmosphere and energy to spare.
- It may sound trite, cliche, corny, even, but I would like to thank my parents.
- That sounds really cheesy and corny, but it's the truth.
- The voiceovers for some of the lesser characters are also at times corny, even if the main cast are much better.
- It might sound a bit corny but my other mentor is Evan Williams, my Twitter - founder.
- That sounds clichéd and corny, but she was the one who got me into vintage from such an early age. The Sun
- There was no sporting reference in that primitive debutant issue of 25 October 1961 – six corny homemade pages printed on yellow paper – but over the following half-century the magazine has significantly cast its wittily baleful eye over the prolix and self-important pomposities of modern professional sport and thank heaven for it. Fifty years of Private Eye's eccentric eye view of sport | Frank Keating
- I haven't seen it yet, and don't intend to, because altho' I was a - fan is too strong a word, I was a *fan* of Battle of the Planets and Starblazers and Voltron, but I watched and liked the series when it was running tho' I thought it rather simplistic and corny by comparison to the other shows I mention - I have heard so much that sounds depressing and Othering about it as a liberal woman, that I don't really need to spend any of my scanty budget on seeing CGI and explosions. Proper Credits for Transformers