hokey

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hokey Definition

• (s) effusively or insincerely emotional; "a bathetic novel"; "maudlin expressons of sympathy"; "mushy effusiveness"; "a schmaltzy song"; "sentimental soap operas"; "slushy poetry"
• (s) 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 Synonyms

• artificial
• bathetic
• contrived
• drippy
• hokey
• maudlin
• mawkish
• mushy
• schmaltzy
• schmalzy
• sentimental
• slushy
• stilted