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- noun Alternative form of
hokiness .
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Examples
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Completely agree about the wooden acting in many of the stock supporting roles, which only accentuated the hokeyness at times.
Ask Matt: Falling Skies, the End of Housewives and Eureka and More! 2011
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The hokeyness of the affair made it all the more embarrassing that, at the moment in the otherwise dreadful pilot when the heroine entered the House Chamber to the familiar words “Mr. Speaker, the President of the United States” and the imposing Geena Davis—Thelma!
Big Girls Don’t Cry Rebecca Traister 2010
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It screams B-movie hokeyness, two extremes that should never be combined.
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The hokeyness of the affair made it all the more embarrassing that, at the moment in the otherwise dreadful pilot when the heroine entered the House Chamber to the familiar words “Mr. Speaker, the President of the United States” and the imposing Geena Davis—Thelma!
Big Girls Don’t Cry Rebecca Traister 2010
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The hokeyness of the affair made it all the more embarrassing that, at the moment in the otherwise dreadful pilot when the heroine entered the House Chamber to the familiar words “Mr. Speaker, the President of the United States” and the imposing Geena Davis—Thelma!
Big Girls Don’t Cry Rebecca Traister 2010
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The hokeyness of the affair made it all the more embarrassing that, at the moment in the otherwise dreadful pilot when the heroine entered the House Chamber to the familiar words “Mr. Speaker, the President of the United States” and the imposing Geena Davis—Thelma!
Big Girls Don’t Cry Rebecca Traister 2010
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I've read criticism about the hokeyness of having the Statue of Liberty's head roll down the street, but really I can't think of a better metaphor for what it was like to watch the Towers fall.
Archive 2008-01-01 Michael May 2008
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I've read criticism about the hokeyness of having the Statue of Liberty's head roll down the street, but really I can't think of a better metaphor for what it was like to watch the Towers fall.
Cloverfield (2008) Michael May 2008
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There's no room for subtlety, no place for credible dialogue, and no depth of hokeyness too remote for DOA to strive towards.
DOA: Dead Or Alive 2007
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He seemed agitated, though Ron guessed it had less to do with the pain from the injuries than his impatience with hokeyness like this.
More Twisted Stories Vol II Deaver, Jeffery 2006
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