as in rustical
tiresomely obvious and unsophisticated
the comedian's cornpone wisecracks were old even in the days of vaudeville
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Adjective
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There’s a fair share of cornball dialogue in Cornelius Uliano and Bryan Schulz’s screenplay, as well as an excess of reassuring schmaltz at the fadeout.—
Dennis Harvey,
Variety,
3 Oct. 2024 -
Another scream for this bad, unabashedly cornball line.—
Evan Minsker,
Rolling Stone,
5 Sep. 2024
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This approach gives a more rustic feel to their menu, one that fully works with their business model of local, homegrown, and rustic foods.—
Dominick Williams,
Kansas City Star,
27 Feb. 2025
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Where Japanese interiors are sleek, Scandinavian ones are rustic.—
Elise Taylor,
Vogue,
26 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Hart despises him and his blundering height, despises the hokey sentimentality of Oklahoma!—
Stephanie Bunbury,
Deadline,
18 Feb. 2025
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To gain her confidence, Arabella pretends to be Jewish (a hokey contrivance that Shakespeare would have approved of), and Indji shares the story of her banishment.—
Gal Beckerman,
The Atlantic,
13 Jan. 2025
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“Cornpone.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cornpone. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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