cornball

cornball

1. adjective Trite or overly sentimental. No wonder they're not laughing at any of the jokes—Edward has such a cornball sense of humor.
2. noun One behaving in such a manner. Edward's such a cornball, no wonder they're not laughing at any of his jokes.
3. noun An unsophisticated person; a bumpkin or hick. I can't believe there are cornballs like you who have never been to a big city.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

cornball

1. n. a stupid or corny person, especially if rural. Who invited this cornball to my party?
2. mod. stupid or corny. What a cornball idea!
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • corny
  • muck-raking
  • appropriate for
  • bulletproof
  • a few
  • man to man
  • man-to-man
  • small talk
  • How about this weather?
  • precious little
References in periodicals archive
It looks and feels like utter cornball but the sheer commitment of the stars makes the whole thing deeply watchable.
Disney wins her trust with a cornball tale of childhood woe in Missouri, where he delivered papers in blizzard conditions.
Snatching the just finished speech as he strode to the rostrum, he began reading, turning the pages and giving the audience his cornball smile as if to say: "Pretty good huh, all my own work".
The pairing of cocksure veteran (usually a man) with emotionally fragile tenderfoot (ordinarily a woman) has worked well in innumerable movies -- not least in romantic comedies -- and there are strong elements of cornball romantic comedy in this script.
When I was in college in the 1970s, I recall my art history professor making disparaging remarks about Rockwell, whom he dismissed as a "mere commercial illustrator of cornball, overly sentimental" art.
The company compares the game to Leisure Suit Larry, a vintage computer game that follows the exploits of Larry Laffer, a sleazy middle-aged Lothario fond of double entendres and cornball pickup lines in his often failed attempts to seduce women.
"Often in married life, it's either some kind of cornball, whitewash thing where everybody's OK, or it's heavy drama - alcohol, stress, they secretly hate each other," notes Hawke, a Texan native, who has four children - two from his first marriage to Uma Thurman and two with his present wife and his children's former nanny, Ryan.
Even the great Kathryn Bigelow had to insert a cornball, trashy sexist ending depicting Maya getting on an enormous military plane by herself.
Moehringer: as a third-rate novel with a deep and crippling cornball streak, or as a loose and journalistic speculative biography of a famous bank robber.
The extras include reminiscences from Kelly's co-stars, Debbie Reynolds and Donald O'Connor, and other participants; homages from contemporary performers and choreographers, like Matthew Morrison and Paula Abdul; a 1996 PBS documentary on the career of Arthur Freed, MGM's fabled producer of musicals (and "Singin' in the Rain" lyricist); even the cornball performance by Ike and the Broxes.
"It's cornball humor, slapstick, and not everybody likes that.
The sensibility that distinguishes Michael Wex's best-selling guides to Yiddish language and cultureBorn to Kvetch, Just Say Nu, How to Be a Mentshcombines the sincere cornball humor of Old Jews Telling Jokes with the erudition of a sociolinguist.
Anti-environments are those means--McLuhan's favourite form was his notorious cornball jokes--by which the implicit assumptions within any phenomenon are exposed, permitting us to step outside the perceptual ground and see the figures and structures freshly.
There's a lot of cornball in that state you have to go through -- boats at docks, old fishermen, and shacks with swayback roofs.
Much of the humour is real cornball and the songs come a bit too thick and fast.