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Meanings of hokey in English

Effusively or insincerely emotional.

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Artificially formal.

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Usage of hokey in English
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Unchaperoned, though, recent seasons have subsided into a swamp of hokey backslapping.
The Guardian
2
It's just hokey atmospherics, of course, but it sends a message.
The new yorker
3
Without being hokey, it makes me feel hopeful about the future of humanity.
Feminist dot com
4
Really hokey, but really scary and weird at the same time.
Wired
5
That would be a lot less derivative and just as much hokey fun.
The Guardian
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There's a distinctly hokey pokey look to this photograph from 1988.
The Irish Times
7
Like the iSmell, the idea seems a little hokey at first.
Wired
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In back is a door made of hokey, old-fashioned iron bars.
Snow Crash
9
A kiwi, a silver fern, a scoop of hokey pokey ice-cream, Lion Brown.
Radio NZ
10
I had no idea what kind of off-road hokey attraction he was talking about.
Silver zombie: delilah street: paranormal investigator
11
There were other complications too: these leprechauns were not the hokey fairies of storybooks.
Artemis Fowl: The Atlantis Complex
12
The first thing I noticed was the hokey hypnotist's stare.
Revival
13
Music just descends on me, as hokey as that sounds.
The Guardian
14
The songs are real songs, not dumbed-down hokey nursery rhymes.
Wired
15
Star Trek episodes can be hokey, and the terrifying space aliens made of rubber.
The Guardian
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She'd never had a hokey Christmas to get tired of.
Seven Minutes in Heaven
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