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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
            1
            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
            6
            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
            8
            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
            16
            She'd never had a hokey Christmas to get tired of.
            Seven Minutes in Heaven
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