[
US
/ˈhoʊki/
]
[ UK /hˈəʊki/ ]
[ UK /hˈəʊki/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
artificially formal
a stilted letter of acknowledgment
contrived coyness
when people try to correct their speech they develop a stilted pronunciation
that artificial humility that her husband hated -
effusively or insincerely emotional
sentimental soap operas
slushy poetry
maudlin expressions of sympathy
a bathetic novel
mushy effusiveness
a schmaltzy song
How To Use hokey In A Sentence
- Different methods are a better fit for different people," Lyubomirsky explains."Keeping a daily gratitude journal seems hokey to some people, but writing a letter of gratitude may be very meaningful.
- Any guy could understand falling for a real girl like Allie, and it was that quality that flavoured the film with enough sincerity to cover the hokeyness.
- For all its hokeyness it is a brilliant film.
- At 410 years per death that would make the pharmaceutical industry liable for over 43 million years of chokey in the US alone.
- He does well connecting with a scene, but often comes across as melodramatic and hokey in this silly musical.
- If not, he warned, the perpetrator could face years in chokey or even the death penalty.
- Giddy up into the spirit of the west with timeless, rugged classics rather than hokey duds.
- I just think everyone associates with Christmas, in terms of coming together, in terms of - you know, to be really hokey, in terms of love and goodwill.
- Did it hurl the seamstresses' ringleaders into chokey? Times, Sunday Times
- I know a lot of people are excited about STO and the movie but in my opinion a reboot isn't necessary, and you can't really reboot the 60s Star Trek without it looking hokey, which is exactly how the trailers look. Gaming Nexus