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corny

How to use corny in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for corny.

Editorial note

It sounds corny as hell when you say it, but he made it work. I'd buy him a beer any day.

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Quick take

dull and tiresome but with pretensions of significance or originality; "bromidic sermons"

Meaning at a glance

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adjective

dull and tiresome but with pretensions of significance or originality; "bromidic sermons"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for corny.

Example sentences

1

It sounds corny as hell when you say it, but he made it work. I'd buy him a beer any day.

2

I know this is going to sound corny, but I want my gadgets to surprise and delight me. This one didn't.

3

I know it sounds corny and cliched, but it's true. This article was the first seed in my head that I needed to change the way I was doing things.

4

Imagine one of the Head First books without all the corny. The only thing I wish it had was exercises.

5

As corny as it sounds, I just want to look back on my life and know that I did something worthwhile that helped people. Its fulfilling to me.

6

Yes the jokes are corny, but since when have corny jokes been grounds for complete humiliation and losing your job?

7

It was immature, but man, there's so little time in the day to spend it getting worked up over a corny joke.

8

It's a corny title, and the book itself can make you feel kind of corny reading it. Unfortunately, most books about money tend to be that way.

9

Good marriages can demonstrate valuable social skills, such as compromise, respect and as corny as it sounds, love. Such things should never "lose out".

10

Also, off-topic, but can we have a google/product launch video without the corny piano soundtrack.

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Heh corny, I know, but I think that's the majority of my motivation. Otherwise I would be making a lot more money off of it and it would be a very different site.

12

Can't the "bro" be actually ridiculing 'bros' and their culture, because bros are corny anyway? I see too many male white knights in here, are there any women here who are actually offended?

13

It might sound corny, but this is what I like to think the profession is 'all about' - identifying real problems and using our talents with whatever resources are available to solve them. Best of luck with your studies.

14

I know that sounds like some corny hero worship shit, but his essays almost single-handedly convinced me that I needed to "Stay Upwind", get a technical degree, and start my own company. The infatuation with entrepreneurs inspires like the Apolo program probably did 50 years ago.

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That sounds corny, but if government is broken and you're an expert at revolutionizing business process, why don't you spend a few years working on it. I am not suggesting that everyone organize their life as I have, but if you really cared about the hardest problems you could find why isnt addressing civic and social problems on your list?

16

So you go to a 48-fps movie for the first time, and now your brain, sitting in a theatre, smelling the popcorn, watching the corny premovie trivia stuff, flicks in its standard "movie filter", but, alas, oh no, now a 24-fps filter is being fed a 48-fps signal! Now the amplifiers are overamplifying and the net is miscalibrated and what works its way up to the semantic part of the brain is not about John and Marsha but about "Hey!

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I was so taken aback by the shift in tone that I actually said the line, corny as it is, "I've lived here for 11 years and this is the first time I've had a positive experience with the Fitzroy police" The cop searching with a torch behind my car doubled over in silent laughter while the one in front of me smirked "Actually, we're from Collingwood&;&."

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use corny in a sentence?

It sounds corny as hell when you say it, but he made it work. I'd buy him a beer any day.

What does corny mean?

dull and tiresome but with pretensions of significance or originality; "bromidic sermons"

What part of speech is corny?

corny is commonly used as adjective.