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hokey

/hoh-kee/US // ˈhoʊ ki //UK // (ˈhəʊkɪ) //

虚张声势,虚伪的,虚伪,虚构的

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adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1

    hok·i·er, hok·i·est.

    • : overly sentimental; mawkish: Two glasses of wine and he gets unbearably hokey; it's hard to believe he's a highly paid executive!
    • : obviously contrived, especially to win popular appeal or support; phony: The hokey stories of his impoverished childhood always surface at election time.

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Examples

  • The founder’s wealth is mostly vested in his creation, but over the past year, he has also been gifted so-called “petcoins” as part of a hokey marketing stunt.

  • I know it sounds hokey, but if you … I know maybe at times you believe that working really hard and doing well may not get you there, but I think today it should.

  • There’s a hokey down-home humor of Cal sputtering at his horse, and his hapless deputy.

  • There are all sorts of hokey things that allow people to use their PR budgets to buy virtue but aren’t really having the impact.

  • More hokey than the inspired objects recalled by the curators: A frumpy teddy bear.

  • But could something quite sensible lie behind this hokey-sounding separation cleanse?

  • By now, everyone knows how to do the Republican presidential hokey pokey: You put your right foot in.

  • There was the lifeless and hokey Management ($934,000 box office) and Love Happens ($22 million).

  • She jumped up and down and did the hokey pokey and shouted to the rooftops from it.

  • Here is the poorer Italian colony; organ-grinders, ice-cream-barrow-men, "hokey-pokey" sellers, and their like.

  • They both laughed, feeling like mischievous children who had played a successful trick on the hokey-pokey man.

  • Hokey Pokey stepped lightly forward, and dropped the round loaf down the great red throat.

  • "Hokey, dokey," said Ishie and crawled out of the narrow aperture with the agility of a monkey.

  • He had scarcely opened the door when he started back in surprise, exclaiming: "By hokey, if there isn't a basket on the steps!"