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List of meaning for hokey

too emotional or artificial to be believed

bathetic, drippy, hokey, maudlin, mawkish, kitschy, mushy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, soppy, soupy, slushy(adj)

effusively or insincerely emotional

"a bathetic novel"; "maudlin expressions of sympathy"; "mushy effusiveness"; "a schmaltzy song"; "sentimental soap operas"; "slushy poetry"

artificial, contrived, hokey, stilted(adj)

artificially formal

"that artificial humility that her husband hated"; "contrived coyness"; "a stilted letter of acknowledgment"; "when people try to correct their speech they develop a stilted pronunciation"

tiresomely obvious and unsophisticated

their father's sense of humor was hokey beyond belief and most people's endurance

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