| 词汇 | hokey |
| 释义 | hokey adjective USinformaluk /ˈhəʊ.ki/ us /ˈhoʊ.ki/ too emotional or artificial and therefore difficult to believe: 做作的，虚伪的 The ending of the movie was awfully hokey.这部电影的结尾极其矫揉造作。 Synonym mawkish Affected & insincere affectation affected affectedly archly artificial feyness forced forcedly fustian glib piously ponce ponce about/around posey preciously sugary super-smooth superslick talk the talk ... walk the walkidiom theatricality hokey | American Dictionaryhokey adjective infmlus/ˈhoʊ·ki/ too emotional or artificial to be believed: The ending of the movie was hokey, but otherwise it was OK. Examples of hokeyhokey Half in, half out—the hokey-cokey approach will not work. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It may well be a hokey-cokey amendment, but its weakness is not that it is too bold, but that it is far too modest. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 That is not in the least so because of the hokey-pokey method of measuring that part of the excess which is due to armament profits. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In that way, he would no longer have to play that game and do the hokey-cokey. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 You do the hokey cokey and you turn around: that's what it's all about. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is obviously the hokey-cokey clause. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 To put it another way, the inspector could take the kidneys out, shake them all about and then return them in a sort of porcine hokey-kokey. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is a hopeless hokey-cokey provision. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 And he has met it by honest means, and not by any trickery or "hokey-pokey," not by calling into account large sums of what are really capital repayment. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Playing the hokey-cokey by having all-postal votes and then returning to the old system will denigrate electoral politics in this country, and be bad for turnouts. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 On-air voices were more professional and with a higher energy level than the hokey, down-home approach used in earlier years. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. While at first the musical tone of the album might seem hokey or mellow, the lyrics are far from that. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. By and by, the team transferred also professional ice hokey players. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. He never abandoned his down-home approach to the news often featuring hokey stories about farmers and their giant vegetables or anglers with really big fish. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Entrepreneurial hokey-pokey men sliced the loaf in half, stuffed it with antipasto salad, and sold the world's first hoagie. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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