hokey

Adjective

ho=key

WORDNET DICTIONARY

hokey(s = adj.all) bathetic, drippy, kitschy, maudlin, mawkish, mushy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, slushy, soppy, soupy - effusively or insincerely emotional; "a bathetic novel"; "maudlin expressions of sympathy"; "mushy effusiveness"; "a schmaltzy song"; "sentimental soap operas"; "slushy poetry"
hokey(s = adj.all) artificial, contrived, stilted - artificially formal; "that artificial humility that her husband hated"; "contrived coyness"; "a stilted letter of acknowledgment"; "when people try to correct their speech they develop a stilted pronunciation"

hokey, adj. (also hoky) (hokier, hokiest) US sl. sentimental, melodramatic, artificial.

Derivative

hokeyness n. (also hokiness). hokily adv.

Etymology

HOKUM + -Y(2)

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