hokey

/hoh-kee/US // ˈhoʊ ki //UK // (ˈhəʊkɪ) //

虚张声势,虚伪的,虚伪,虚构的

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective

1
hok·i·er, hok·i·est.
- : overly sentimental; mawkish: Two glasses of wine and he gets unbearably hokey; it's hard to believe he's a highly paid executive!
- : obviously contrived, especially to win popular appeal or support; phony: The hokey stories of his impoverished childhood always surface at election time.

adj.corny

Synonyms

The founder’s wealth is mostly vested in his creation, but over the past year, he has also been gifted so-called “petcoins” as part of a hokey marketing stunt.
I know it sounds hokey, but if you … I know maybe at times you believe that working really hard and doing well may not get you there, but I think today it should.
There’s a hokey down-home humor of Cal sputtering at his horse, and his hapless deputy.
There are all sorts of hokey things that allow people to use their PR budgets to buy virtue but aren’t really having the impact.
More hokey than the inspired objects recalled by the curators: A frumpy teddy bear.
But could something quite sensible lie behind this hokey-sounding separation cleanse?
By now, everyone knows how to do the Republican presidential hokey pokey: You put your right foot in.
There was the lifeless and hokey Management ($934,000 box office) and Love Happens ($22 million).
She jumped up and down and did the hokey pokey and shouted to the rooftops from it.
Here is the poorer Italian colony; organ-grinders, ice-cream-barrow-men, "hokey-pokey" sellers, and their like.
They both laughed, feeling like mischievous children who had played a successful trick on the hokey-pokey man.

/hoh-kee/US // ˈhoʊ ki //UK // (ˈhəʊkɪ) //

虚张声势,虚伪的,虚伪,虚构的

adj.形容词 adjective

1
hok·i·er, hok·i·est.
- : overly sentimental; mawkish: Two glasses of wine and he gets unbearably hokey; it's hard to believe he's a highly paid executive!
- : obviously contrived, especially to win popular appeal or support; phony: The hokey stories of his impoverished childhood always surface at election time.

adj.corny

Synonyms

The founder’s wealth is mostly vested in his creation, but over the past year, he has also been gifted so-called “petcoins” as part of a hokey marketing stunt.
I know it sounds hokey, but if you … I know maybe at times you believe that working really hard and doing well may not get you there, but I think today it should.
There’s a hokey down-home humor of Cal sputtering at his horse, and his hapless deputy.
There are all sorts of hokey things that allow people to use their PR budgets to buy virtue but aren’t really having the impact.
More hokey than the inspired objects recalled by the curators: A frumpy teddy bear.
But could something quite sensible lie behind this hokey-sounding separation cleanse?
By now, everyone knows how to do the Republican presidential hokey pokey: You put your right foot in.
There was the lifeless and hokey Management ($934,000 box office) and Love Happens ($22 million).
She jumped up and down and did the hokey pokey and shouted to the rooftops from it.
Here is the poorer Italian colony; organ-grinders, ice-cream-barrow-men, "hokey-pokey" sellers, and their like.
They both laughed, feeling like mischievous children who had played a successful trick on the hokey-pokey man.