Hokey

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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  hokey
       adj 1: effusively or insincerely emotional; "a bathetic novel";
              "maudlin expressons of sympathy"; "mushy
              effusiveness"; "a schmaltzy song"; "sentimental soap
              operas"; "slushy poetry" [syn: {bathetic}, {drippy}, {maudlin},
               {mawkish}, {mushy}, {schmaltzy}, {schmalzy}, {sentimental},


               {slushy}]
       2: 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" [syn: {artificial},
          {contrived}, {stilted}]