Hokey in a sentence as an adjective

" Well, perhaps less hokey, but you get the idea.

These guys let you create a hokey greeting card and e-mail it to a friend.

The only music mentioned is an early-'90s song that was hokey the day it came out.

Members-only section feels hokey, I don't like it.

Thinking on such a long term scale is so weird that it seems hokey or even wildly eccentric at first glance.

Start with primary sources, avoid hokey nonsense like what you posted.

I heard someone the other day saying that now that Jobs is gone they're bringing back the hokey colors to the product lines.

Since it is an experienced team, I'm going to guess no participation or anything else hokey.

It's been quite the undertaking...And I agree, our Members-only section is definitely hokey right now!

You look at a guy like Jobs and it was always such a hokey, patronizing, and calculated exercise with his Houdini-esque product launches.

That's not always the case, and sometimes if you don't know the language very well - in my case, Ruby - then certain patterns aren't available to you and it looks hokey without you realizing it.

So, he's likely lying based on the fact that you "have to believe" that Amazon uses some undisclosed super-elite ninja tech, rather than yet another hokey algo based on IP address and other hopelessly unreliable data?That is not an argument.

Hokey definitions

adjective

effusively or insincerely emotional; "a bathetic novel"; "maudlin expressions of sympathy"; "mushy effusiveness"; "a schmaltzy song"; "sentimental soap operas"; "slushy poetry"

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"

See also: artificial contrived stilted