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- adverb In a
corny manner.
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Examples
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Boing Boing has an inbox victory page where people (cornily) celebrate their email-less inboxes.
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Yesterday at Ness's we went on this hike for about 3 hrs roundtrip to this amazing place simply called the Viewpoint where honestly and cornily, I felt on top of the world.
Hot Cold Hot Cold Michelle 2006
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And you could say -- cornily -- that it's a movie about the triumph of the human spirit, and you could contend that that's Christmasy.
"One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest." Ann Althouse 2006
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And you could say -- cornily -- that it's a movie about the triumph of the human spirit, and you could contend that that's Christmasy.
Memoirs, cartoons, rotting fish, peevish men... Ann Althouse 2006
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And you could say -- cornily -- that it's a movie about the triumph of the human spirit, and you could contend that that's Christmasy.
Archive 2006-12-01 Ann Althouse 2006
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Yesterday at Ness's we went on this hike for about 3 hrs roundtrip to this amazing place simply called the Viewpoint where honestly and cornily, I felt on top of the world.
Archive 2006-07-01 Michelle 2006
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Baruchel Undeclared is nerdily charming, but Johnson chews too much scenery to go with the whiskeys the script has him knocking back, and both attorneys are saddled with such cornily dramatic closing-arguments speeches that you will end up rooting for the jury to send an innocent man to jail, just to spite them.
Reunited, and, Well, Frankly, It Could Feel Better - Tuned In - TIME.com 2005
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"Xfinity is infinite potential," Comcast executive David Watson cornily tells Time.
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With a few exceptions, the lyrics are somewhat trite and cornily rhymed (on "Empty Pictures," about the negative effects of media and advertising: "They can show you pictures of the world that looks so nice / But you can walk out of your door and see with your own eyes").
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I Am Legend's wayward third act, which begins with Neville cornily reciting lines from
GreenCine Daily 2009
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