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Meanings of hokey in English
Synonyms
Examples for "artificial"
Examples for "artificial"
1
Dry in the shade; never in the sun or in artificial heat.
2
Scientists and farmers therefore produce a lot of food with artificial methods.
3
This doesn't mean that the current crisis is artificial or indeed temporary.
4
So what new words might we use in place of artificial intelligence?
5
And then, of course, artificial intelligence will develop new kinds of weapons.
1
Providing an immediately different, or contrived, competition style could have been troublesome.
2
With a great effort, Joyce contrived to be gracious yet once more.
3
Owen's argument for limbs might strike us today as contrived and peculiar.
4
Finally, the trial seems, in retrospect, obviously contrived to serve political ends.
5
At one point Pakistan contrived to lose six wickets for 29 runs.
1
Taken aback, I couldn't answer, and the atmosphere grew even more stilted.
2
His often stilted demeanour in front of the cameras was also off-putting.
3
Her voice had no discernible affect, while mine went straight to stilted.
4
She was evidently infected by the stilted manner of her ridiculous lover.
5
He could think of nothing that did not sound stilted and formal.
Usage of hokey in English
1
Unchaperoned, though, recent seasons have subsided into a swamp of hokey backslapping.
2
It's just hokey atmospherics, of course, but it sends a message.
3
Without being hokey, it makes me feel hopeful about the future of humanity.
4
Really hokey, but really scary and weird at the same time.
5
That would be a lot less derivative and just as much hokey fun.
6
There's a distinctly hokey pokey look to this photograph from 1988.
7
Like the iSmell, the idea seems a little hokey at first.
8
In back is a door made of hokey, old-fashioned iron bars.
9
A kiwi, a silver fern, a scoop of hokey pokey ice-cream, Lion Brown.
10
I had no idea what kind of off-road hokey attraction he was talking about.
11
There were other complications too: these leprechauns were not the hokey fairies of storybooks.
12
The first thing I noticed was the hokey hypnotist's stare.
13
Music just descends on me, as hokey as that sounds.
14
The songs are real songs, not dumbed-down hokey nursery rhymes.
15
Star Trek episodes can be hokey, and the terrifying space aliens made of rubber.
16
She'd never had a hokey Christmas to get tired of.
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