Example sentences for: hokey

How can you use “hokey” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • An interesting mix of genres (vampire and Western) winds up as a hokey mess: "[T]his gummy mix of fake-Catholic mumbo jumbo and teeth-in-neck horror goes limp" (Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly ). "[T]he unintended campiness of Vampires makes Night of the Living Dead look like an episode of Nightline " (Michael O'Sullivan, the Washington Post ). But Gene Siskel praises the film, calling it "surprisingly entertaining" ( Chicago Tribune ). (Watch the trailer.)

  • The basic concept is hokey, if mildly original: A band of old-west nasties stumbles into a strange town populated by the souls of dead outlaws doing penance in the hopes of earning a seat on the great stagecoach to heaven.

  • Having expected a disaster, most critics confess surprise that Robert Altman's direction redeems this thriller, which began as a hokey John Grisham story.

  • It would also have seemed petty to go to the manager and tattle--mostly because he would probably have been disinclined to approach her and say, "I was informed you've been eating the Hokey Pokey."

  • As for the questions you raise, Prudie thinks you were correct not to say anything because that would have undoubtedly led to a brouhaha in the aisle--perhaps with some Hokey Pokey being lobbed.


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