eng: hokey

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Meaning
means	(adjective) effusively or insincerely emotional; "a bathetic novel"; "maudlin expressions of sympathy"; "mushy effusiveness"; "a schmaltzy song"; "sentimental soap operas"; "slushy poetry" hokey, schmalzy, sentimental, maudlin, mushy, schmaltzy, drippy, soppy, kitschy, soupy, bathetic, mawkish, slushy
means	(adjective) 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" stilted, contrived, artificial, hokey