hokey
US'həukı
تعریف انگلیسی
adjective
- 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”
- effusively or insincerely emotional “a bathetic novel” “maudlin expressions of sympathy” “mushy effusiveness” “a schmaltzy song” “sentimental soap operas” “slushy poetry”