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Từ điển Oxford Learners Wordfinder Dictionary
hokey
1. 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
• Similar to:
affected, unnatural
2. effusively or insincerely emotional
- a bathetic novel
- maudlin expressions of sympathy
- mushy effusiveness
- a schmaltzy song
- sentimental soap operas
- slushy poetry
• Syn:
bathetic, drippy, maudlin, mawkish, kitschy,
kitschy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, soppy,
soupy, slushy
• Similar to:
emotional
• Derivationally related forms:
sentiment (for: sentimental), sentimentality (for: sentimental), mushiness (for: mushy), mawkishness (for: mawkish), drippiness (for: drippy)
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