as in rustical
tiresomely obvious and unsophisticated
their father's sense of humor was hokey beyond belief and most people's endurance
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Recent Examples of hokey
After the hokey show last year, the Academy this time at least tries to capture the Zen of the movie year.
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Bill Wyman, Vulture, 28 Feb. 2025
To gain her confidence, Arabella pretends to be Jewish (a hokey contrivance that Shakespeare would have approved of), and Indji shares the story of her banishment.
—Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 13 Jan. 2025
Cutting a long story short, a vocal minority of reactionary gamers is perturbed that a sci-fi video game features a Black samurai protagonist, despite the game’s hokey premise centering on the genetic recording of memories written to computer software.
—Lewis Gordon, Vulture, 8 Jan. 2025
What doesn’t is the hokey scene set in a Homegoods store where apparently small children with big designer dreams practice elaborate tablescaping.
—Vanessa Franko, Los Angeles Times, 18 Dec. 2024
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Bill Wyman, Vulture, 28 Feb. 2025
To gain her confidence, Arabella pretends to be Jewish (a hokey contrivance that Shakespeare would have approved of), and Indji shares the story of her banishment.
—Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 13 Jan. 2025
Cutting a long story short, a vocal minority of reactionary gamers is perturbed that a sci-fi video game features a Black samurai protagonist, despite the game’s hokey premise centering on the genetic recording of memories written to computer software.
—Lewis Gordon, Vulture, 8 Jan. 2025
What doesn’t is the hokey scene set in a Homegoods store where apparently small children with big designer dreams practice elaborate tablescaping.
—Vanessa Franko, Los Angeles Times, 18 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hokey
Adjective
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There’s a fair share of cornball dialogue in Cornelius Uliano and Bryan Schulz’s screenplay, as well as an excess of reassuring schmaltz at the fadeout.—
Dennis Harvey,
Variety,
3 Oct. 2024
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Another scream for this bad, unabashedly cornball line.—
Evan Minsker,
Rolling Stone,
5 Sep. 2024
Adjective
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Each is rustic and snug, offering a private deck overlooking the South Atlantic, with woolen blankets to cozy up with.—
Travel + Leisure Editors,
Travel + Leisure,
16 Apr. 2025
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And, of course, a rustic backdrop featuring melting clocks, a lot like Salvador Dalí’s The Persistence of Memory, bridges the familiar with the fantastical.—
Adelle Platon,
VIBE.com,
15 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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This could have easily read as corny, had Wright not so expertly filled the frame with such activity beforehand.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
18 Apr. 2025
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Shawn reluctantly agrees, but is humiliated when Cory starts acting corny around his friend Gambling Dan (Phil Buckman), and his lackey, Louie (Weiss).—
EW.com,
EW.com,
16 Apr. 2025
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“Hokey.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hokey. Accessed 27 Apr. 2025.
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