as in rustical
tiresomely obvious and unsophisticated
the comedian's cornpone wisecracks were old even in the days of vaudeville
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Adjective
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There’s a fair share of cornball dialogue in Cornelius Uliano and Bryan Schulz’s screenplay, as well as an excess of reassuring schmaltz at the fadeout.—
Dennis Harvey,
Variety,
3 Oct. 2024 -
Another scream for this bad, unabashedly cornball line.—
Evan Minsker,
Rolling Stone,
5 Sep. 2024
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Amazon has offered me a glimmer of hope with its selection of customizable tiny houses from modern designs to rustic, cabin options that are less than $12,000.—
Rylee Johnston,
People.com,
3 Aug. 2025
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Of the three rustic lodges built at Zion, Bryce Canyon and the North Rim to accomplish that purpose, the Grand Canyon Lodge was the most important and the most historically intact.—
Joanna Allhands,
AZCentral.com,
2 Aug. 2025
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Cattle—even corn-fed ones—tend to spend much of their life on pasture eating grass, which leads to a lot of methane burps, but growing that grass is not carbon intensive.—
Sarah Zhang,
The Atlantic,
8 Jan. 2025
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Never underestimate a corn-fed basic from Hockeytown.—
Meredith Blake,
Los Angeles Times,
29 May 2023
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The achilles heel of the series was what now seems like hokey special effects.—
Jim Clash,
Forbes.com,
7 Aug. 2025
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The bit was mostly chalked up to a PR stunt, in line with the hokey tone of The Naked Gun.—
Sam Reed,
Glamour,
30 July 2025
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“Cornpone.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cornpone. Accessed 15 Aug. 2025.
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