hokey

Example Sentences

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Like “Die Hard,” this is a Christmas movie, which is to say a religious allegory in sometimes hokey holiday dress.

From New York Times

Any other day in any other place in America, I’d probably find that sentiment too hokey.

From New York Times

Unfolding mainly over one long night, “The Birthday Cake,” punchily photographed by Sean Price Williams, is brash, a little hokey and endearingly melodramatic.

From New York Times

That prompted an outburst of hokey metaphors — maybe “the mist would lift” from the deliberations of the leaders, one said — as the hosts did their best to entertain their news-starved guests.

From New York Times

It’s a hokey answer, but it is real.

From Los Angeles Times