| 单词 | hokey |
| 释义 | hokey (once / 35177 pages) adj Something that's hokey is silly and sentimental — you could also call it "sappy" or "mawkish." A hokey speech is more likely to make people roll their eyes and squirm than to make them cry. You can buy your friend a hokey birthday card as a joke, or read her a hokey poem to make her laugh. There's a hint of insincerity when something's hokey — people can tell that the sentiments in your hokey yearbook quote aren't entirely genuine. In the mid-1800s, hokey-pokey was defined as "false, cheap material," possibly based on hocus-pocus, and usually referring to artificial flavoring in cheap ice cream. Today, the hokey-pokey is mainly known as a silly dance. WORD FAMILYhokey USAGE EXAMPLESMs. Peelle entertains in the novel in a folksy way that might lapse more frequently into hokey in a less confident writer’s hands. New York Times(Jan 01, 2017) “I tell everyone, I hated it. Somebody said ‘drain the swamp’ and I said, ‘Oh, that is so hokey. That is so terrible.'” Seattle Times(Dec 21, 2016) Win Forever and All In might seem hokey to some. Seattle Times(Dec 04, 2016) 1adj effusively or insincerely emotional Syn bathetic, drippy, kitschy, maudlin, mawkish, mushy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, slushy, soppy, soupy emotional of more than usual emotion 2adj artificially formal Syn artificial, contrived, stilted affected, unnatural speaking or behaving in an artificial way to make an impression |
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