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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The Tampa Bay Buccaneers once selected the wrong player because of a miscommunication straight out of a hokey 1970s sitcom.
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No amount of soaring visuals or tear-jerking features or hokey patriotism could gloss over this reality: Team USA did not live up to expectations at the 2018 Winter Olympics.
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Athletes from the two Koreas are expected to walk together under the same flag at the opening event and a joint women’s ice hokey team will represent the two technically still-warring nations.
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Cage was, however, ardently expressing his deep-seated disdain -- for the hokey-pokey.
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Osborn’s play blends story elements and the themes of Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya (minus the earnest striving) and the hokey existentialism of Thornton Wilder’s Our Town.
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This might sound hokey, but working on a giant jigsaw puzzle together comes to mind.
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This might sound hokey, but working on a giant jigsaw puzzle together comes to mind.
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Flash intros were hokey, sure, but not entirely unnecessary.
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First Known Use of hokey
1927
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