单词 | corny |
释义 | corny I. 1. archaic 2. < the corny ear — Matthew Prior > 3. < the American satirizing the Englishman and the Englishman satirizing the American reach their corniest and most obvious depths — Stephen Potter > < a play full of corny music and corny jokes > bc mawkishly sentimental < fantasy about a blue kitten … in less talented hands … could have been painfully corny — Atlantic > : old-fashioned < TV sets are selling poorly because their styling is a little backward, sort of corny — Time > : characterized by threadbare moralizing, exaggerated theatricality, or grandiose but commonplace sentiments < especially eloquent in a slightly corny way, with the wide gestures and grandiloquent intonations of a United States senator — F.L.Allen > II. 1. 2. |
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