try-hard

• “If all the other stores along the street were non-cool, Colette was painfully try-hard trendy.”

  The Huffington Post: BritChick Paris: Why the Code for Fashion in Paris Is 66

• “There's nothing weird about him; neither is he a trendy try-hard.”

  Three priests

• “I'm not sure why Meades insists on looking like an ageing roué from Reservoir Dogs by wearing a black suit, white shirt, black tie and Ray-Bans for most of the programme – dark glasses don't exactly improve eye contact with the viewer and it all feels a bit deliberately try-hard and wacky – but I guess every presenter is entitled to their shtick.”

  The Guardian: TV review: The Crusades | Jonathan Meades on France

• “Imagine you're a Radio 1 executive: try-hard haircut, Daily Mail-enraging expense account, the full clip.”

  The Guardian: The Hard Sell: Radio 1

• “Smoking to look cool, it's even been suggested, risks you being judged a "try-hard".”

  The Guardian: Smoke and minors

• “The band are at their least successful when conforming to angular, try-hard type on tracks like "Come Alive Diana".”

  The Guardian: Man Alive by Everything Everything

• “MOTD2 has become a try-hard and four other nuggets of wisdom about the weekend's happenings from Barry Glendenning – now on the Sportblog for your delectation.”

  The Guardian: Today in Sport – as it happened

• “At East Leyden High School, Shanahan was more than a "try-hard" guy.”

  The Washington Post: Mike Shanahan takes his life's work to D.C. and Washington Redskins

• “At first no one thought he'd amount to much; his coach at Main Junior High wrote him off as one of the "try-hard" kids.”

  The Washington Post: Mike Shanahan takes his life's work to D.C. and Washington Redskins

• “In contrast I thought the twists were really try-hard, of the …and you know what happened next?”

  Pandorum–Hidden Gem

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