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Words related to hokey

Related / Similar Words: artificial, contrived, stilted, bathetic, drippy, maudlin, mawkish, mushy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, slushy

Definition:

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";

effusively or insincerely emotional; "a bathetic novel"; "maudlin expressons of sympathy"; "mushy effusiveness"; "a schmaltzy song"; "sentimental soap operas"; "slushy poetry";

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small-grained is similar to powdered, powdery, pulverized, pulverised and fine-grained.

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