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Meanings of corny in inglés
Dull and tiresome but with pretensions of significance or originality.
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Examples for "platitudinous"
Examples for "platitudinous"
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He winced, but Joan rattled on with the platitudinous originality of youth.
2
This is platitudinous, but it needs to be borne in mind.
3
The thing has become platitudinous, but remains as difficult as ever.
4
That statement isn't in reality as platitudinous as it seems at first thought.
5
These gentlemen, with few exceptions, made heavy, ponderous, and platitudinous speeches.
1
The guests arrived shortly and there were the usual stiff, bromidic greetings.
2
By a similar reasoning, a Hypo-Sulphite can, at a step, become bromidic.
3
Caliph felt fairly certain there was some kind of bromidic metaphor going on.
4
The mirrored bromidic mind gives back only what it has taken.
5
Sulphites come together like drops of mercury, in this bromidic world.
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The conversation, owing to the intervention of other of the guests, became general and platitudinal.
2
Perry quickly midwifed-ascreator, writer, and director-thesoapy The Haves and Have Nots and trite platitudinal working-class comedies like Love Thy Neighbor.
3
Things that had seemed drearily theoretical, dry, axiomatic, platitudinal, showed themselves to be great generalizations from a torrent of human effort and mortal endeavour.
Usage of corny in inglés
1
She said it best herself: it was corny, but it was fun.
2
I had never managed to portray human nature without being horribly corny.
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I know it sounds corny, but I'd like us to be friends.
4
Now, this is not the opening line of a corny mother-in-law gag.
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It had been love at first sight, as corny as that was.
6
It sounds awfully corny but we're not in this for the money.
7
I never got into Bill Cosby, always thought he was corny myself.
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We thought it would be so...so corny that it might be cute.
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This may sound corny, but he was born a gentleman, says Thomaz.
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It was corny, and it was a one-trick act, but it worked.
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But its premise was too vague, and its pop covers too corny.
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However corny, there's a chance that headline could be written soon.
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Then Cameron said, 'I realise this sounds incredibly corny, but have we met?'
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I know it kind of sounds corny now, but it's true.
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His cheesy jokes and his corny sense of humor were gone.
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They think every corny word out of their mouths is funny.
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United States of America
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