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Meanings of hokey in English
Synonyms
Examples for "sentimental"
Examples for "sentimental"
1
The morning breeze is to the strong the moonlight of the sentimental.
2
The defense of reputation has two aspects: the practical and the sentimental.
3
But it's not a fluffy, cute or sentimental story, quite the contrary.
4
No; it was not a sentimental story-itwas the old sea-fight again.
5
Businesses were not sentimental just because there was a ceasefire, she said.
1
However, it did seem to bring him out of his maudlin humour.
2
She sighed, aware that the drink had sent her into self-pitying maudlin.
3
There shall be permitted no maudlin sentiment of pity in this undertaking.
4
They stopped at the gate to bid each other a maudlin farewell.
5
Until you chuck that maudlin bunch of slush and scenery at us.
1
They had mushy undertones but they were good movies with defined intentions.
2
The splinters were gone from it now; it was growing soft, mushy.
3
And don't get all mushy on me-notthat that's likely to happen.
4
No matter how mushy Custer sounded, she wanted to finish the interview.
5
Just don't tell Dave that, he already thinks I'm way too mushy.
1
Road surfaces are very slushy, the Southland District Council advised this morning.
2
The voice that came over the ship channel was slushy and drugged.
3
Technology turned those sounds into taps on slushy snow or hard ice.
4
Myrrima crept along the edge of the wood, walking in slushy snow.
5
The next step I took filled my hiking boots with slushy ooze.
1
His head was a soupy mess, and it was hard to focus.
2
Chasing her down would be no great task, given her current soupy condition.
3
A young male voice, cranked tense with chemicals, floated across the soupy water.
4
You want this chowder to be soupy but not too thin.
5
A faint but welcome breeze stirred like a ladle through the soupy fog.
1
He wrote her a mawkish letter; read it; and tore it up.
2
Given the pair's songwriting proclivities, one might have expected something unspeakably mawkish.
3
Now here's where the case gets both real interesting and real mawkish.
4
Cue that dreadful, mawkish Saturday Night Live Hallelujah thing with Kate McKinnon.
5
A mawkish regard for delicacy might have kept this disclosure to yourself.
1
Expect a lot of soppy loved up tunes from here on in.
2
And she would certainly not get soppy about a marriage like theirs.
3
My cotton just became soppy and I was ever so much heavier!
4
I hadn't meant to get all soppy like this today anyway.
5
Humane liberalism is at the soppy, shameful heart of this indefensible seal hunt.
1
Granted, June and Harry start off so drippy their scenes require damp-proofing.
2
Can drippy Rebecca lift those feet that seem nailed to the stage?
3
She nodded and wiped at her drippy nose with a clean handkerchief.
4
Gone is the great, jazzy theme, criminally replaced by some drippy electro pap.
5
And a queer creature in drippy white came crawling out of-
1
Yes, the clothes and music of the 1980s might seem kitschy now.
2
I've never seen Fengdu as anything but a cheap, kitschy tourist trap.
3
The kitschy culture and fickle habits that infested your forever-adolescent America.
4
In the beginning, it was a kitschy trifle, a grassroots kind of thing.
5
They're cute, a little kitschy, and actually still kind of inspiring.
1
A face that could carry extremes of emotion and not look bathetic.
2
But he puts it simply; not as an exercise in the quasi-philosophical bathetic.
3
To Jude's eye the effect of such efforts was always bathetic.
4
Other than the bathetic speech-making, there's virtually no drama in this misbegotten hokum.
5
All faces turned to him with a kind of bathetic wonderment.
1
It's the middle finger to every schmaltzy prom film you've ever seen.
2
It was a saccharine performance of the schmaltzy pop-soul number Love on Top.
3
Not the fairy-tale brand of love, saccharine and schmaltzy, but the enduring kind.
4
I'm not being schmaltzy here, or maybe I am, but I'm also being sincere.
5
I feel like kids' movies are now always animation or schmaltzy or PG13 superhero films.
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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