hokey

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• February 22. 2013 from wordnet.princeton.edu

  hokey — adjective — english

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

• March 24. 2016 from wordnet.princeton.edu

  hokey — adjective — english

  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"