All hokey synonyms
hok·ey
H h adjective hokey
- corny — If you describe something as corny, you mean that it is obvious or sentimental and not at all original.
adj hokey
- banal — If you describe something as banal, you do not like it because you think that it is so ordinary that it is not at all effective or interesting.
- commonplace — If something is commonplace, it happens often or is often found, and is therefore not surprising.
- dull — not sharp; blunt: a dull knife.
- feeble — physically weak, as from age or sickness; frail.
- hackneyed — let out, employed, or done for hire.
- mawkish — characterized by sickly sentimentality; weakly emotional; maudlin.
- old hat — old-fashioned; dated.
- old-fashioned — of a style or kind that is no longer in vogue: an old-fashioned bathing suit.
- sentimental — expressive of or appealing to sentiment, especially the tender emotions and feelings, as love, pity, or nostalgia: a sentimental song.
- shopworn — worn or marred, as goods exposed and handled in a store.
- stale — not fresh; vapid or flat, as beverages; dry or hardened, as bread.
- trite — lacking in freshness or effectiveness because of constant use or excessive repetition; hackneyed; stale: the trite phrases in his letter.