hokey
['hoki]
- adj. 做作的；虚情假意的
英英释意
- 1. effusively or insincerely emotional;
- "a bathetic novel"
- "maudlin expressons of sympathy"
- "mushy effusiveness"
- "a schmaltzy song"
- "sentimental soap operas"
- "slushy poetry"
- 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"