Found 1 items, similar to hokey.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: hokey
hokey
adj 1: 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,
sentimental,
slushy]
2: 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” [syn:
artificial,
contrived,
stilted]