hokey

Related to hokey: mawkishly

hokey

1. Clearly contrived. "Hokey" comes from "hokum," which can refer either to nonsense or to trite and mawkish content in a creative work. That was such a hokey plot twist—it felt totally unearned.
2. Overly sentimental or trite. It's just some hokey romantic comedy—I understand if you don't want to see it.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

hokey

(ˈhoki)
mod. contrived; phony; ill conceived. (see also hocus.) That’s a pretty hokey idea, but it may work.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • hokum
  • horsefeathers
  • Horsefeathers!
  • martin
  • all my eye
  • all my eye (and Betty Martin)
  • betty
  • a load of nonsense
  • a load of rubbish, nonsense, etc.
  • nonsense
References in periodicals archive
The Hokey Pokey ones had a delicious honeycomb taste, albeit they were tooth-achingly sweet.
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The BISE Chairman said that organizing All Pakistan Inter Board Hokey Tournament was a great honor for people and city Mirpurkhas.
Team of BISE Lahore wins All Pakistan Inter Board Boys' Hokey Tournament
Hokey Pokey Pirates is also available in paperback for $9.99 and as a digital book for $1.99.
Hokey Pokey Pirates, Now Available as an Audiobook from Dreaming Big Publications
The regulatory duty on cricket bats would be 30 per cent, cricket wickets 30 per cent, cricket pads 30 per cent, hokey sticks 30 per cent and polo sticks 30 per cent.
FBR fixes 30 to 50 pc regulator duties on sports products
They all talk their hokey pokey They all swear they're okey dokey They must think that we're all dopey And don't suspect jiggery pokery.
Poet's corner; Hokey Cokey Referendum
A nightmare moment | Comprised of interviews and hokey re-enactments, the film features eight people who report feelings of being frozen as they drift off to sleep, a sensation followed by visions of red-eyed monsters, saucer-eyed aliens and 'shadowmen'.
THE NIGHTMARE (15)
Though it hardly wants for sincerity or ambition, Coixet's portrait of an arduous mid-career expedition by American explorer Josephine Peary is dramatically as pallid and lifeless as the frozen tundra on which it takes place, burdened with a hokey romanticism that doesn't complement its quasi-feminist purview.
Nobody wants the night
I thought the dust collection port was a little hokey at first, but it really does save a lot of time since I don't have to remove the bit and blow away wood shavings several times for every hole.
Premier pocket hole jig
New Delhi, Mar 4 ( ANI ): The Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports has given recognition to 'Hokey India' as National Sports Federation (NSF) for the sport of Hockey.
Government gives NSF status to Hockey India
A TEESSIDE charity worker has revealed how Prince Charles, famously, ended up doing the hokey cokey with school children in Sri Lanka.
One puts one's left leg in... one's left leg out... How charity worker's wife prompted prince's now famous dance
Muscat, Sept 1 (ONA) The Sports Affairs Ministry honored delegation of the National Hokey Squad who crowned with the silver medals in the 4th Asian Hokey Cup in Bangkok last April.
Sports Affairs Ministry Honors Hokey Squad
Timetrials are held every Tuesday from the club house at the Hokey Union Fields next to the Athletic Stadium in Olymipia at 18:00 where after the members socialise with each other.
No winners or losers
You dipped your big toe in, then quickly took it out like a one-man Hokey Pokey.
Wading in Shallow Water
Instead of looking like a sour-faced old bird, the Queen appears positively chirpy, like a game old granny who might lead the hokey cokey at any moment.
Rolf Harris