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as in sentimental
appealing to the emotions in an obvious and tiresome way
corny violin music during the movie's love scenes
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as in hokey
tiresomely obvious and unsophisticated
the audience groaned as the emcee told one corny joke after another
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Recent Examples of corny
Sprinkles was known for, among other things, inventive and somewhat corny methods of customer delivery.
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Suhauna Hussain The Los Angeles Times, Arkansas Online, 18 Jan. 2026
To be completely honest with you, confidence is corny now.
—Samyra, SELF, 14 Jan. 2026
It’s been a staple of awards shows for years, a corny bit designed mostly to bolster confidence in the voting results.
—Susan Campos, HollywoodReporter, 14 Jan. 2026
Sprinkles was known for, among other things, inventive and somewhat corny methods of customer delivery.
—Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2026
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Suhauna Hussain The Los Angeles Times, Arkansas Online, 18 Jan. 2026
To be completely honest with you, confidence is corny now.
—Samyra, SELF, 14 Jan. 2026
It’s been a staple of awards shows for years, a corny bit designed mostly to bolster confidence in the voting results.
—Susan Campos, HollywoodReporter, 14 Jan. 2026
Sprinkles was known for, among other things, inventive and somewhat corny methods of customer delivery.
—Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for corny
Adjective
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The result is a sentimental arts-and-crafts project given cinematic form, in ways that occasionally blur the line between reality and artistic representation.—
Siddhant Adlakha,
Variety,
20 Feb. 2026
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Well, there’s the sentimental side of me that grew up watching Carson that liked that.—
The New Yorker,
New Yorker,
20 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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What ultimately keeps the house from feeling hokey or trite is Glazer’s commitment to her all-encompassing taste.—
Mark Lamster
Architecture Critic,
Dallas Morning News,
10 Feb. 2026
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With no internet, their only entertainment comes from booze, ping-pong, rudimentary video games, and VHS tapes of hokey old game shows.—
Richard Edwards,
Space.com,
21 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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Compared to the absolving gleam of latex, sloppy imperfection isn’t especially sexy.—
Lillian Fishman,
New Yorker,
25 Feb. 2026
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Against the Raptors, that translated into sloppy basketball.—
Julia Poe,
Chicago Tribune,
20 Feb. 2026
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
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Another scream for this bad, unabashedly cornball line.—
Evan Minsker,
Rolling Stone,
5 Sep. 2024
Adjective
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If, in the following days, increasing moisture and a sticky feel to the atmosphere are accompanied by fog or overcast skies, this can signal the approach of a cold front with a cooler air mass behind it.—
Newsroom Meteorologist,
Austin American Statesman,
24 Feb. 2026
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In 2025, though, gold broke through several barriers, setting new records along the way as investors reacted to sticky inflation, uneven economic data and growing skepticism about how long restrictive monetary policy could stay in place.—
Angelica Leicht,
CBS News,
24 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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Their rustic aesthetic heralded an acoustic music boom that included acts like Ed Sheeran, Noah Kahan, and Zach Bryan, and their sound crept into the rhythms of pop.—
Jon Dolan,
Rolling Stone,
21 Feb. 2026
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Elsewhere in the hotel, the look is rustic and Mediterranean, combining traditional elements like wooden ceiling beams, elegant canopies draped over king-size beds, and carpets made of natural fibers.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
20 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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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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“Corny.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/corny. Accessed 1 Mar. 2026.
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