hokey
adjective, hok·i·er, hok·i·est.
Origin of hokey
Related Words for hokey
banal, commonplace, dull, feeble, hackneyed, mawkish, old-fashioned, sentimental, shopworn, stale, triteExamples from the Web for hokey
Contemporary Examples of hokey
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.
With their hokey humor and easily solved crises, those shows led straight into the era of Ellen and Will & Grace.
Commenting on his vanilla—some might even say “hokey”—demeanor, my wife said he reminded her of the father on Leave It to Beaver.
We used to close our meetings with a hokey phrase: “May the great master of all Scouts be with us till we meet again.”
Historical Examples of hokey
Hokey Pokey took it with many thanks, and then went on his way.
The Pig Brother and Other Fables and StoriesLaura E. Richards
By the Hokey; if Sally Jones is'nt real grit, there's no snakes.
The Portland Sketch BookVarious
I saw him some months back down at Sawyer's Forks, and by hokey!
At Whispering Pine LodgeLawrence J. Leslie
"By hokey, I don't like the looks o' that," said the old man, as he observed the armed band approaching his lonely cabin.
Brother Against BrotherJohn Roy Musick
He had scarcely opened the door when he started back in surprise, exclaiming, "By hokey, if there isn't a basket on the steps!"
Timothy Crump's WardHoratio Alger