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corny

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corny

1. Trite, dated, or banal. Oh geez, Edward has such a corny sense of humor—no one ever laughs at his jokes. When did the idea of monogamy become corny? One day, you're young and cool. And then you have kids, and they tell you all your ideas are corny!
2. Mawkishly or melodramatically sentimental. The card he got me for Valentine's Day had this corny poem inside about true love. Love songs always sounded corny to me until I fell in love myself. I know this might sound corny, but it's 100% the truth—my wife is the most beautiful woman I've ever seen in my life.

sound corny

To sound trite or overly sentimental. A: "I know this sounds corny, but you're the most beautiful woman I've ever seen in my life." B: "Oh please! Get out of here." Love songs always sounded corny to me until I fell in love myself.
See also: corny, sound
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corny

1. mod. having to do with simple-minded, overdrawn humor. (Alludes to rural or folksy style.) This corny dialogue has to be revised before I’ll act in this play.
2. mod. having to do with overdone sentiment. The love scenes were your corny hands-off-the-naughty-parts events, but nobody laughed.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions Copyright © 2006 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.
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References in periodicals archive
'' Ross and Demelza were putting the corny into Cornish
Kevin Rhodes, 41, who plays Corny Collins and lives in Killingworth, is a software test analyst for Virgin Money in Gosforth but is no stranger to treading the boards.
Pulled with a good bang and packed with corny jokes, facts and trivia.
'' '' I'm getting in the mood for Xmas with some corny jokes
Pop Corny ranked as the App Store's #1 Game in France, Greece, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, United Arab Emirates and Jordan.
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The Big Society sounds corny I know, but Liverpool has been chosen for funding from the government so grab it because voluntary work is better than no work and I promise you, it is good for you.
It starts off with Land of Hope and Glory, ends with My Way and in between has all her wartime hits plus a vast array of corny, sloppy, romantic, wonderful hits from the 40s and 50s.
Corny aroma, like an American lager, not the Saaz spice we were expecting.
I don't usually get too affected when I'm filming, and I know it sounds really corny, but there was so much talent on that set and everyone was just working their socks off."
When the national tour of "Hairspray," the intentionally wacky Broadway musical, lands in town next week, that will be Mallon on stage playing the key role of Corny Collins.
Her disguise succeeds in fooling Adrian, the young man hired to be the tutor for Rosalind (known to him as Ross) and her cousin Corny, until Rosalind is confused by her strange feelings for Adrian and the flirtation she can't control--Adrian is confused as well!
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