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Hokey Moderate

Hokey has 3 different meanings across 1 category:

Adjective

Definitions
Adjective
1

effusively or insincerely emotional

"a bathetic novel"

"maudlin expressions of sympathy"

"mushy effusiveness"

"a schmaltzy song"

"sentimental soap operas"

"slushy poetry"

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"

3

phony, as if a hoax; noticeably contrived; of obviously flimsy credibility or quality

Example Sentences
"a bathetic novel" adjective
"maudlin expressions of sympathy" adjective
"mushy effusiveness" adjective
"a schmaltzy song" adjective
"sentimental soap operas" adjective
"slushy poetry" adjective
"that artificial humility that her husband hated" adjective
"contrived coyness" adjective
"a stilted letter of acknowledgment" adjective
"when people try to correct their speech they develop a stilted pronunciation" adjective
See Also
flimsy hoke contrived sentimental hokeypokey hoax unbelievable phony
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Rhyming Words
key okey ikey pikey lukey dokey wakey cakey unkey likey mikey bakey jakey fakey dykey cokey rekey jokey pokey dukey
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