Hokey is an English word with synonyms like bathetic or contrived. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Hokey in a sentence
Hokey meaning
- Phony, as if a hoax; noticeably contrived; of obviously flimsy credibility or quality.
- Corny; overly or unbelievably sentimental.
Synonyms of Hokey
Using Hokey
- The main meaning on this page is: Phony, as if a hoax; noticeably contrived; of obviously flimsy credibility or quality. | Corny; overly or unbelievably sentimental.
- Useful related words include: bathetic, contrived, artificial, emotional.
- In the example corpus, hokey often appears in combinations such as: the hokey, hokey pokey, hokey cokey.
Context around Hokey
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 8 middle, 9 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 0 questions, 1 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Hokey
- In this selection, "hokey" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 21.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, themes, potentially, nhv, pokey, cokey and cult stand out and add context to how "hokey" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include about as hokey as they and across as hokey instead had. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "hokey" sits close to words such as abbe, abeyance and abp, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with hokey
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
It’s the NHV hokey-pokey. (6 words)
Well, blow my mind —- the hokey commercials are true! (9 words)
Then you do the hokey pokey and you turn yourself around. (11 words)
He recalled how his youngest daughter Sadie, who thought the crash she, too, was involved in “was like a rollercoaster ride”, struggled during a Father’s Day event at her daycare, during a Hokey Pokey dance activity with the parents and kids. (42 words)
With the Broncos new owners taking the first stab at uniform redesign in nearly 30-years, there is a legitimate fear that we could end up with some hokey outsider representation of what folks think the Broncos should look like. (40 words)
Even her medal references — gold, silver and bronze metallic jersey and Lurex gowns swathed and tacked around the body, like the memory of a sash — which could easily have come across as hokey instead had a seductive ease. (38 words)
Well, blow my mind —- the hokey commercials are true! (9 words)
Example sentences (20)
It just feels like a waste to waste it on a hokey cult.
The film's period setting lends the film's hokey horror a throwback aura, like something you'd see sandwiched between Actually Good Universal and Hammer horror films in an all-night marathon.
The kids performed classics like 'Ye Cannae Shove Yer Granny Aff A Bus' and 'The Jeely Piece Song', as well as 'The Shoogly Woogly' - a Scots spin on the Hokey Cokey.
The powerhouse returned from a ruptured Achilles, however his gimmick is about as hokey as they arrive.
There is this hokey expression that “acting is reacting,” and the dynamic between these two characters is a really good example of that.
Even her medal references — gold, silver and bronze metallic jersey and Lurex gowns swathed and tacked around the body, like the memory of a sash — which could easily have come across as hokey instead had a seductive ease.
He recalled how his youngest daughter Sadie, who thought the crash she, too, was involved in “was like a rollercoaster ride”, struggled during a Father’s Day event at her daycare, during a Hokey Pokey dance activity with the parents and kids.
His warm presence and resonant voice add levels to Peter that certainly aren’t evident in the hokey writing.
Much of it was Joe Biden Classic, all the familiar themes, hokey stories, family sayings, unabashed patriotism and sometimes debatable claims.
Turning the time trael device into a sports car made more alive and not just another hokey sci-fi time travel movie.
Well, blow my mind —- the hokey commercials are true!
With the Broncos new owners taking the first stab at uniform redesign in nearly 30-years, there is a legitimate fear that we could end up with some hokey outsider representation of what folks think the Broncos should look like.
It is here that Fukunaga demonstrates his versatility, handling potentially hokey material smartly and respectfully.
Jabir takes the hokey turn-of-phrase with a pinch of salt, but the effect is undeniable.
Maybe this seems a little aspirational to you right now…maybe even hokey, but I believe it as well.
Others compared it to rhymes such as "Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes" and "Hokey Cokey", suggesting the slogan was childish.
Then you do the hokey pokey and you turn yourself around.
You do the Hokey Pokey, turn yourself around, and then you smash the pool table you just built to bits with a sledgehammer.
It’s the NHV hokey-pokey.
You have to be both strong and ignorant to accept 120-degree temperatures and hokey Southwestern vibes.
Common combinations with hokey
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: