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
It's corny and sentimental, with a plot line of made of pure mush. Times, Sunday Times
The jokes are corny, the language is salty but the exuberance and costumes make it hugely enjoyable. The Sun
The Temptations recorded what was described as a 'corny' version of Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
The only odor is a little bit "corny" - as it's made from corn! Apartment Therapy Main
At the state fair in Iowa, he ate what he called "corny dogs" and talked about growing up the son of a "dry-land cotton farmer" who appreciates the agricultural way of life. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
Besides, "it's part of our political process for people to express ... whatever they feel" without being "demonized," said Cornyn. Cornyn: Obama is 'now looking like a mere mortal'
Its "longish denouement" is "corny and contrived, but we seize on it with relief - as we seize on the Mahleresque romanticism of Gabriel Yared's score. GreenCine Daily: The Lives of Others and The Decomposition of the Soul.
The script for Brett Ratner’s “X-Men: The Last Stand” continued this theme, offering a “cure” for mutants that stripped them of their powers, but the movie also reveled in corny dialogue and moved too fast to be very cohesive. “X-Men Origins: Wolverine” worst of the comic book series so far » Scene-Stealers
Senators Cornyn and Reid should both just sit down, cool off, and allow the plain meanings of law, unstrained by the casuistry of lawyers or by the pulls of partisanship to provide guidance in these two cases. — Republican Leader Threatens to Block Seating of Franken - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
They tend to look cheesy and have corny plots that slink toward clichéd payoffs.
Instead of decrying violence, Senator Cornyn legitimated it and used it to attack judicial activism. The Conservative Assault on the Constitution
The message of the movie -- and its makers admit it sounds "corny" and "cliched" -- is one of connection. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
A script with some rapid-fire, honed dialogue rather than corny improvisation might also have helped. Times, Sunday Times
Set in the showbiz circuit of the 1940s, it charmed critics with its corny jokes.
‘I'll miss ya, babe,’ he blew me a corny kiss as I got out of the car.
The stingy hankerer after what Corny called four inches of dirt was his father. A Jolly Fellowship
It's corny and sentimental, with a plot line of made of pure mush. Times, Sunday Times
But for a lonely night in need of some corny sentiment, this is some fluffy candy that just might fill.
The villain is an investor who kills with such glee that he almost seems corny.
God, how unbelievably corny!
In every corny soap opera or sappy movie, the main characters find themselves shacked up in some seedy motel.
The pace is languid and events too abstract to be a children's movie, yet corny stunts alienate mature viewers.
Now when you have some lamebrain campaign where there's someone attempting to rap or do a jingle that mimics a style of rap, it comes off corny because it's obvious that someone didn't do their homework.
Wrenched from tradition, tartan has become such fun: deregulated, demystified, with ridiculously corny accessories. Times, Sunday Times
The moral of this story is corny but true: it is better to have loved deeply and have lost than not to have loved at all.
Happiness is not senseless, mindless, silly, stupid, corny, cheesy or unimportant.
He makes lots of corny jokes, and tries to explain stuff in terms we'll understand.
It features one of his classic and most-quoted lines - "I'll be back" - and allowed us all to put the suffix "-ator" at the end of any word to describe him in a corny way. The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
The second half of the film thankfully tones down the groan-inducing asininity with which the cultural conflicts are handled, but only does so in favor of a different kind of asininity — that of the “corny feel-good bullshit” variety. This Week in DVD & Blu-ray: Fantastic Mr. Fox, The Blind Side, The Men Who Stare at Goats, Brothers, and More | /Film
Nicole -- The Fletcher family says that corny is a hybrid of "corn" and "carnie. Making corny dogs at home | Homesick Texan
Less securely his is the church music attributed to 'William Cornysh'.
At the end of the ten weeks I was a new person, corny as it may sound I felt re-born.
Most often this group is targeted with a single approach, a somewhat corny or hokey jingle and stock message.
It might sound a bit corny but my other mentor is Evan Williams, my Twitter co - founder.
He is best summed up in that corny old phrase: a class act. Times, Sunday Times
It sounds corny, I know. Times, Sunday Times
It probably seems unnecessary to write a corny eulogy for a man whose TV persona virtually defined corniness for over three decades.
If it sounds a bit corny, then that's what a lot of it was. Times, Sunday Times
It was part of our determination not be corny, to be different.
You can't watch that stuff and not know that this, in that corny phrase, was the big one.
When asked yesterday by Tim Russert about this e-mail, Cornyn accused Reed -- who, in addition to being a top Bush campaign official also happens to be seeking the GOP nomination as Lt. Governor of Georgia -- of lying and "bilking" his clients: Using Christian conservatives for fun and profit
He has an endless supply of corny jokes.
He is a '60s renegade not afraid to use a corny word like "jeepers," and he displayed a ripe sense of humor about some of his younger antics - he once attended a press tour barefoot (although the suit was bespoke and the tie Hermes). Chicagotribune.com -
Updated 10: 48: Sen. Cornyn just asked Judge Sotomayor a pointed question about what he calls a disparity between what she has said in speeches and how she has characterized those speeches. Doug Kendall: Liveblogging the Sotomayor Confirmation Hearing (Day 4)
The name is corny, but the results can turn pockmarked neighborhood streets around in a single weekend. Al Abrams: Let's Fix LA From the Ground Up, One Pothole at a Time
My state is foremost among them as our Republican delegation to Washington, headed by Hutchison and Cornyn, is probably the most undistinguished group of men and women that could be found in our noble state. Giuliani backs Rubio over Crist in Florida contest
A script with some rapid-fire, honed dialogue rather than corny improvisation might also have helped. Times, Sunday Times
If we were feeling corny we'd say The Middle Kingdom is a book about a woman who, by discovering China, discovers herself.
Was it the result of oversight or inadvertence or were there some employees in the company that were doing this without your knowledge or..." asked Cornyn R-Texas. HUFFPOST HILL - Google Probably Not Plus-1ing Today's News
Long corny walk in Oak Openings Park on one of those rare October days when the sun shines and the leaves look decent in Ohio, holding hands, itching to get some privacy and scrog till they're sore but delaying it because both of them thought this was a happy moment, and surprise, it was Mother Of Storms
No amount of medicine can cure his corny jokes. Times, Sunday Times
I know this sounds corny, but people looked after people. Times, Sunday Times
In the later scenes, it grows more formulaic, galloping towards a happy ending with unseemly haste, burdening the actors with unconvincing old age make-up and testing the audience with corny platitudes.
As if in a corny fiction, it is in the gents that we first identify each other and introduce ourselves.
His chronic acting and corny lines make you want to put your joypad through the telly at times. The Sun
Admittedly, it errs a little on the corny side, but it's hard to say whether that's really a fault in a movie of this kind.
We wanted to stay away from being simply celebratory, corny or slushy - often things like this can become very uncritical.
And it may sound cheesy or corny, but I really remember the movies that I went to see with my whole family.
Hey now, any guy likes to be served by a cute waitress smiling and laughing at all your corny jokes, it just makes you feel good.
There is nothing like that steamy, spicy, corny aroma that wafts out of a freshy steamed tamale. Part 1 | Homesick Texan
Most impressively, the ensemble switched effortlessly between the flowing, unmetered style of chant and the measured harmonies of unaccompanied polyphony, like William Cornysh's gorgeous motet "Ave Maria Mater Dei. Folger's music presentation is fit for King Henry's court
If they sound trite and corny to somebody, well so much for that. The Sun
Lines as corny as this can have someone in the audience break into laughter, and the thin crust of magic that keeps the film afloat will fall into splinters.
Like the time you teamed up with Texas right wing fanatic John "cornball" Cornyn on a proposal that would eliminate prepaid cell phones and hence protect the nation from the bad guys. Randy Credico: Congratulations Chuck! You've Knocked Me Off the Democratic Primary Ballot
You just thought that the red-headed lady with the corny song was funny, and deserving not only of a quiet chuckle, the restrained acknowledgment of tragicomedy, but of a hearty guffaw.
Sometimes its good stuff, mostly its really lame corny jokes.
Cornyn credits Sinatra with getting cold feet at the last minute, but based on my research (go here if you're curious), it seems more like the machinations of the label execs, who doubted the album's commercial potential. Tony Sachs: Forty Years On, Frank Sinatra's Great Lost Album Finally Surfaces
It's a shame that The Adjustment Bureau, with its sparkling performances, promising premise, and thought-provoking questions about free will, human nature, fate, and the justness of God's motives could end in such a pat, corny heap that's sure to draw negative comparisons to superior mind-benders like Inception and The Matrix. Jonathan Kim: ReThink Review: The Adjustment Bureau -- Love, Fate and Magic Hats
But there's nothing like corny video star wipes and bad sound effects carefully preserved for decades to come on DVD to horrify future generations.
This production makes fun of this corny stage convention by not even trying to cast actors who look similar.
After watching Prince Caspian though there is no way in hell I can call Indiana Jones corny, Even though I enjoyed Prince Caspian it was one of the more cornier movies I've ever watched. Sunday Discussion: Why Are There Always Bad Apples?! « FirstShowing.net
I just hope that if he campaigns he keeps the corny Terminator lines to a minimum.
What we have this afternoon is a battle between Senator Cornyn and Senator Kennedy. Cheney Bush’s Chief Immigration Salesman?, etc
You can actually get away with corny jokes, and I bet your sense of humor is a guilty pleasure for your friends.
If you can overlook the corny moments and cheesy dialogue, then this has atmosphere and energy to spare.
There's never anything wrong with a twist of rootsy folk and country, but once it veers into corny territory it's time to switch gears.
During one Sen.te meeting on the immigration legislation, he attacked Sen. John Cornyn of Texas for raising what he characterized as trivial objections to a compromise being worked out with the White House. McCain Victory Built on War Experience
We do, however, recall a daft corny film where a ridiculous hairy Michael J. Fox who looked more like Teen Ape slam dunked a basketball a few times. Teen Wolf to become a TV series : Chronicles Network: Science Fiction & Fantasy
Here is a fairy-tale showbiz story that's almost too corny to be true.
As neither of the gentlemen was a cavalier, Corny and his friend were totally unsphered by being mounted, the former on a lean, draggle-tailed pony, whose back swayed beneath its ponderous weight as if it would break in the middle, while the latter received practical instruction in the original mode of churning butter on the back of a tall, gaunt, and hungry-looking animal. Alamance; Or, the Great and Final Experiment viii, 9-151, [1] p.
And for once the finale - everyone coming together to sing Dylan's Chimes of Freedom - seemed not corny but exactly right.
Yeah, they play well off of each other, but I can't help feeling like it's a corny chemistry at best.
But the corny jokes that go inside are written in this country. Times, Sunday Times
When I read again what I wrote over a week ago, it does look a little stupid or corny.
It's corny, derivative stuff, but it's still early days, the film could yet surprise us.
At around two hours and twenty minutes it does seem a tad overlong and sure, some of the dialogue is ludicrously corny. The Sun
But that's what friends are for, corny and hokey as that sounds.
The dialogue and acting in Indecent Proposal are tired, cliched and corny.
Cornyn said he is "disinclined" to support any tax increases as part of a defict reduction package. Dem: I'll challenge Pelosi for top leadership slot
Are corny jokes off the menu? Times, Sunday Times
It made me feel closer to all those nouveau patriots, waving their flags from their cars like diplomats, even though it was corny and just a way to recycle those old Laker's flag holders.
Not only is he typecast as a robot named Sam Thinko who is, for the most part, relegated to the background and given corny interactions with actress pronounced “breathy jiggler” Mamie van Doren, poor Elektro spends the movie broadcasting pseudo-sexy dialogue that writes checks his aging circuits and gears can’t pay. The ULTIMATE guide to ELEKTRO the Moto-Man, essay by M. Sweeney Lawless
Well sure it's a bit corny, and even frequently hokey, but it's fun, too.
A sense of duty, corny as that might sound, impels me to contest the leadership.
Very sweet – and corny is good, in this case. xo by paris parfait The Roots of Love (for Poetry Thursday)
The children pulled crackers and we read corny jokes to each other.
The jokes are corny, the language is salty but the exuberance and costumes make it hugely enjoyable. The Sun
And it may sound cheesy or corny, but I really remember the movies that I went to see with my whole family.
It's corny and sentimental, with a plot line of made of pure mush. Times, Sunday Times
It has a cut-grass smell, corny like harvest time. The Sun
He was arrested in the early hours of the morning chin-deta - a corny pun that I will make no effort to explain - looking for digital adjustments to his antenna, if the rumours about him and the park are to be believed. Four in five already prepared for terrestrial analogue switch-off
As if in a corny fiction, it is in the gents that we first identify each other and introduce ourselves.
It might sound a bit corny but my other mentor is Evan Williams, my Twitter co - founder.
This is a hilarious send-up of corny Hollywood action flicks, cut like a movie trailer.
Games arrive to rescue college football from the most off of off-seasons Alabama, No. 1 in preseason football rankings, a healing force in Tuscaloosa Eight Miami players must sit out games and repay benefits, NCAA rules Arizona and Arizona State deal with rash of odd injuries College football is much better in on-season with corny Lee Corso in headdress, Ralphie on stampede, Beano Cook on podcast and Nevin Shapiro in prison. News - latimes.com
Whenever someone is out, the loudspeaker blasts out a 10 second clip of some corny but apt popular music tune.
What's really corny is that he made a show in Iraq trying to receive some recognition for the success of "Bush's war". Biden on July Fourth: Swearing in troops, cursing 'S.O.B.' Saddam
With corny lines and questionable effects, it's absurdly entertaining. The Sun
Where? says Alf. And begob there he was passing the door with his books under his oxter and the wife beside him and Corny Kelleher with his wall eye looking in as they went past, talking to him like a father, trying to sell him a secondhand coffin. — Ulysses
We need whatever music, no matter how corny or clichéd, to get us through our days and nights.
He has an endless supply of corny jokes.
The old faces are coming out with the same old corny lines, and the new faces just don't fit in. The Sun
The character voices are superbly done and there are rarely any corny lines or jokes in the game.
Instead, I saw my memories as they were viewed by millions every week: corny, unoriginal, and uninteresting.
There is no hiss or distortion to interfere with the dialogue and corny special effects.
As it gathered steam, I was greatly impressed with several moments, but a corny line or an awkward coincidence was always around the bend.
He's so good, in fact, that he somehow makes the impossibly corny final line in the movie my absolute favorite, delivered so overearnestly it would make his perpetually sunglassed Cracked: All Posts
That sounds clichéd and corny, but she was the one who got me into vintage from such an early age. The Sun
I know it sounds corny, but people genuinely care for each other here. Times, Sunday Times
There's nothing corny about her sentimental soul - the music has classic written all over it.
Agent Donat arrives by parachute, spends a few minutes disguised as a Rumanian peasant, then transforms himself into Tartu, a Rumanian Iron Guardist, reeking with pomade, corny gallantries and devotion to the New Order.
The children pulled crackers and we read corny jokes to each other.
It's just so cheesy, corny, and clichéd you can't help but like the good old-fashioned story of the underdog overcoming the odds.
The fact is, I like histrionic piano breaks and corny melodic swoops, and I don't like rough-edged voices and rhythm guitars.
Too many artists who go for an old-time country sound end up sounding corny and cartoonish, insulting their favourite music rather than paying tribute to it.
It might sound a bit corny but my other mentor is Evan Williams, my Twitter - founder.
Alternatively you could try the sugar-coated pop or corny club classics spilled out at Club Q, all in the best possible taste.
It is rare for a movie to bring such a feeling to the viewer without coming off as corny or overly sentimental.
John Cornyn (R., Texas) and Robert Menendez (D., N.J.) introduced a bill that would require the Obama administration to sell Taiwan 66 new F-16C/D multirole fighter jets, which are made by Lockheed Martin Corp. White House Briefs Congress Staff on Taiwan
Corny story cheats become believable, and meaningful, because the whole story works this way.
But those wanting some bang for their buck will be disappointed to learn they come with no corny jokes or party hats. The Sun
That would just be really corny. The Sun
Before Broadbint knew hwere he was, the pig was up his back and over into his lap; and bedad the poor baste did credit to Corny's thrainin of it; for it put in the fourth speed wid its right crubeen as if it was enthered for the Gordn Bennett. John Bull's Other Island
Early in Raiders of the Lost Ark, the long, raucous call of an Australian kookaburra rings out in the Americas, but Budney appreciates it as homage to the corny roots of jungle-adventure movies.
And he tells a corny story of how, the night before he won, he stepped into a snowbank in blizzardy New York and lost his boot. Why He Still Gets No Respect
Alternatively you could try the sugar-coated pop or corny club classics spilled out at Club Q, all in the best possible taste.
An exceptionally talented man, he was equally adept at dancing and singing, corny comedy and serious dramatics.
I know it sounds corny, but there are much worse things that happen. Times, Sunday Times

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