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[ US /ˈhoʊki/ ]
[ UK /hˈə‍ʊki/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. 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
  2. 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
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