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Mawkish
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hokey
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. effusively or insincerely emotional; "a bathetic novel"; "maudlin expressons of sympathy"; "mushy effusiveness"; "a schmaltzy song"; "sentimental soap operas"; "slushy poetry" [syn: bathetic , drippy , maudlin , mawkish , mushy , schmaltzy , schmalzy ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ It may sound hokey , but county fairs are still great entertainment. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ But in the hands of director John Singleton, it instead descends disappointingly into vacuous, hokey Hollywoodism. ▪ Even ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Hokey can refer to: Handover Keying technologies addressing seamless migration of secure wireless connections from one network to another. The name of a particular House-elf in the fictional Harry Potter series A misspelling of Hokie , the mascot of Virginia ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 (context US colloquial English) phony, as if a hoax; noticeably contrived; of obviously flimsy credibility or quality 2 (context US colloquial English) corny; overly or unbelievable sentimental
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1927, from hoke + -y (2). Related: Hokiness .
Usage examples of hokey.
He was a deuced good officer, with a head for details and strategy that even Old Hokey recognized.
It was the hokiest thing he had ever heard, and it had come from his own mouth.
The bride danced by, dressed all in red, her arms around the shoulders of the Klingons dancing in the hokey pokey line on either side of her.
I thought it was going to be all schlocky and hokey, but Marcia knows her stuff.