from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
hokey
adj 1: effusively or insincerely emotional; "a bathetic novel";
"maudlin expressions of sympathy"; "mushy effusiveness";
"a schmaltzy song"; "sentimental soap operas"; "slushy
poetry" [syn: {bathetic}, {drippy}, {hokey}, {maudlin},
{mawkish}, {kitschy}, {mushy}, {schmaltzy}, {schmalzy},
{sentimental}, {soppy}, {soupy}, {slushy}]
2: 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" [syn: {artificial},
{contrived}, {hokey}, {stilted}]