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hokey
     adj 1: effusively or insincerely emotional; "a bathetic novel";
            "maudlin expressons of sympathy"; "mushy
            effusiveness"; "a schmaltzy song"; "sentimental soap
            operas"; "slushy poetry" [syn: {bathetic}, {drippy}, {maudlin},
             {mawkish}, {mushy}, {schmaltzy}, {schmalzy}, {sentimental},
             {slushy}]
     2: 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" [syn: {artificial},
        {contrived}, {stilted}]