cornball
Example Sentences
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This much silence from pop music’s most dramatic main character, biggest cornball and most profligate breadcrumb dropper has rattled the usual channels for all things Swift.
From Salon ● Jul. 9, 2026
Once I noticed that the supermarket where I shop was churning out generic cornball Walmart country music to a staff that consisted almost entirely of Hispanic women.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 15, 2025
The show can border on the cornball; the characters are the sort you might have seen in the sort of dramas popular in 1868.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2025
It just started feeling insincere and sort of corny and cornball.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 20, 2022
But if I had a girl like Kim, I'd probably be acting like a cornball too.
From "When I Was the Greatest" by Jason Reynolds
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