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Adjective(1) effusively or insincerely emotional(2) artificially formal

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(1) That saying about laughter being the best medicine is hokey but true, especially for shaking the blues.(2) Without being hokey or melodramatic, there is a message of hope in the album… it's positive.(3) It may sound hokey , but the mental shift worked.(4) He recited the words and managed to keep it from sounding hokey or stilted, and the rest of his speech was genuinely inspiring, not just the usual catch-phrases.(5) It might sound hokey , but drawing has been really helpful for me - not only for dealing with emotions but in helping me get back into my artwork again.(6) On the other hand, this is all hokey second rate filmmaking.(7) Most often this group is targeted with a single approach, a somewhat corny or hokey jingle and stock message.(8) It starts off pretty solid - despite the hokey gypsy Tarot card lady in the beginning - and pretty chilling, but after the first act is over, watch out.(9) These films are very hokey , more so than normal horror films, very easily parodied, and at least one of the stories tends to verge on comedy.(10) This might seem hokey , but a love letter laced with concern can be quite effective.(11) It's cheesy, hokey , melodramatic and superficial.(12) A little hokey , but those kids will remember it for the rest of their lives.(13) Barlow also prefers writing songs about issues that currently plague the world, rather than hokey love songs.(14) Few things are harder to create convincingly than an album of rhyming spoken word - it's hard not to sound pretentious, derivative or hokey .(15) For the most part Daniela is not hokey or cheesy, as many performers who dip into these waters can be.(16) But that's what friends are for, corny and hokey as that sounds.