HOKEY — ТЛУМАЧЕННЯ
hokey
Artificially formal.
Приклади
- 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.
Effusively or insincerely emotional.
Приклади
- A bathetic novel.
- Maudlin expressons of sympathy.
- Mushy effusiveness.
- A schmaltzy song.
- Sentimental soap operas.
- Slushy poetry.
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