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Examples of hokey in a Sentence
She gave us some hokey excuse for being late.
their father's sense of humor was hokey beyond belief and most people's endurance
Recent Examples of hokey from the Web
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Quinones is ill at ease doing the romantic scenes and reading the hokey dialogue, but the street kids around him play themselves naturally.
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The cynic in me found the vision hokey; the dreamer in me would have liked to disappear with them.
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Not in the sense of a hokey rural wisdom, but rather in the sense of a careful craftsmanship or artisanship, with the values of work and revision that Hall maintained were essential for poets.
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If several of the tricks feel original, nearly all of them feel hokey.
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The hokey title and concept initially turned me off, but the trailer plants the seeds of something interesting, especially with Brandon Micheal Hall (star of last season's tragically-canceled The Mayor) at the helm.
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It’s moderately funny, with hokey dialogue and a fairly predictable plot.
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Particularly in the era of advertising, social media, and in the fitness industry where so many hokey products and programs are marketed as the next fitness miracle.
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The majority of Americans want a second special counsel appointed because of all the hokey pokey.
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First Known Use of hokey
1927
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HOKEY Defined for English Language Learners
Definition of hokey for English Language Learners
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: obviously fake
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: very silly, old-fashioned, or sentimental
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