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corny adjective mawkish, sentimental, hackneyed US, 1932- The piano player in the band was an old maid about forty-five who knew every song that had been published in the last hundred years and could play in any key you named, each one cornier than the other. — Mezz Mezzrow, Really the Blues, p. 60, 1946
- Christ, I’m getting corny. — Jack Neal Cassady, Letter to Jack Kerouac, p. 135, 5 October 1947
- They were full of corny quips and Eastern college talk[.] — Jack Kerouac, On the Road, p. 227, 1957
- [“]New York meant beautiful women and street-smart guys who seemed to know all the angles.” Nah, no... corny, top corny... for... my taste. — Manhattan, 1979
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