How to Use hokey in a Sentence

hokey

adjective

• She gave us some hokey excuse for being late.
• The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008) A hokey ramshackle mess.
  — James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 July 2023
• Nothing hokey, but more of a serious rewiring of the brain.
  — Mika Brzezinski, NBC News, 6 Mar. 2020
• Nothing hokey or new-agey about it, just a voice guiding you.
  — Molly Kimball, NOLA.com, 6 Mar. 2018
• The cynic in me found the vision hokey; the dreamer in me would have liked to disappear with them.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 24 June 2018
• Poke isn’t pronounced like something one does with a stick, or as in doing the hokey pokey.
  — Julie Jargon, WSJ, 15 Sep. 2017
• The rink is a favorite of area students and made headlines in 2015 for being the place where police killed the hokey pokey.
  — Jameelah Nasheed, Teen Vogue, 17 July 2018
• To an outside ear, these sound too hokey to be the basis for fervent belief.
  — Franklin Foer, The Atlantic, 10 Oct. 2019
• There also was a hokey cat meme meant to attract high school students.
  — Becky Bohrer, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Aug. 2020
• To modern readers, the silver age comics of the early Marvel era may read as kind of hokey.
  — Joe George, Men's Health, 16 Feb. 2023
• Doing the hokey-kochy In part, that is because the left is almost as beholden to rich people as the right.
  — The Economist, 29 Aug. 2019
• Sometimes the biggest challenge is a genre bias — to watch a show that looks unbearably hokey.
  — Hank Stuever, Washington Post, 29 Aug. 2019
• There will also be live music, limbo, hokey pokey and races, according to the event page.
  — Briana Rice, Cincinnati.com, 28 Feb. 2020
• If several of the tricks feel original, nearly all of them feel hokey.
  — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 26 June 2018
• And if all that sounds too hokey, how about this: Wu has to remember to keep her friends close and her enemies closer.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 22 Dec. 2022
• Kanye gives you the hokey wholesomeness of a youth pastor and splices in the lurid, honest, reckless energy of a divorced dad in the club.
  — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 2 Sep. 2021
• The first Evil Dead is kind of a melodrama, a lot of laughs come out of the excessive effects and hokey dialogue, and bad acting.
  — Clark Collis, EW.com, 12 July 2021
• No, the bands don’t play any hokey concessions theme songs or act out the trailers for coming attractions.
  — Dylan Owens, The Know, 1 May 2017
• Like most fast food places, KFC has used quirky, tongue-in-cheek and sometimes-hokey marketing ploys to bring customers into their stores.
  — Jordan Valinsky, CNN, 12 Oct. 2020
• Nobody seems to think the interruption is hokey or contrived.
  — Doug Struck, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 Aug. 2017
• Like some hokey primetime plot, Barry Diller's quest for media moguldom needed a third act.
  — Wired Staff, WIRED, 1 Dec. 1997
• Keoghan brings out a hokey elimination totem — a giant time clock where the losing contestants must punch out each week.
  — Washington Post, 7 July 2020
• This might sound hokey, but working on a giant jigsaw puzzle together comes to mind.
  — Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 23 Dec. 2017
• Six years before this drama unfolded, Beyoncé was on the other side of the awards-show hokey-pokey.
  — Paul Grein, Billboard, 19 Aug. 2019
• This slogan, however, as experienced by bankers on the ground such as Hambek, was more hard-core than hokey.
  — Bethany McLean, The Hive, 19 June 2017
• But the execution is hokey, with even Lee Sizemore rolling his eyes at the hosts' fascination with their mirrored selves.
  — Sandra Upson, WIRED, 21 May 2018
• Humor plays a bigger role in this film than in the original or, for that matter, the still-influential but hokey 1990 TV miniseries.
  — John Wenzel, The Know, 6 Sep. 2019
• An interesting, complex Dog Movie that has the emotional bite to match its somewhat hokey bark.
  — Ross Raihala, Twin Cities, 19 Aug. 2019
• Musical theater in the corrupt town with pep doesn't seem like a good idea, but showrunner Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa found a way to mix singing and crime without making it hokey.
  — Stacey Grant, Seventeen, 18 Apr. 2018
• Things that go bump in the night so efficiently on a big screen often look hokey and overly theatrical when designed to occur live.
  — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 10 Dec. 2019

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024