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hokey
adj 1: effusively or insincerely emotional; "a bathetic novel";
"maudlin expressons of sympathy"; "mushy
effusiveness"; "a schmaltzy song"; "sentimental soap
operas"; "slushy poetry" [syn: {bathetic}, {drippy}, {maudlin},
{mawkish}, {mushy}, {schmaltzy}, {schmalzy}, {sentimental},
{slushy}]
2: 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" [syn: {artificial},
{contrived}, {stilted}]