Sentence examples for been corny from inspiring English sources

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been corny

adjective

Insipid or trite.

  • The duct tape and wire were a pretty corny solution.

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That script, about a woman who is turning 40 and her relationship with her dying father, may have been corny but it got her an agent.

Lacking the budget of previous opening ceremonies, Meirelles's team made elaborate and inventive use of projections a device that would have been corny in less gifted hands but that was splendid in theirs.

At the conclusion, DiDonato lent the program a homespun twist that would have been corny in less confident hands.

The old idea of "gazing on the face of Agamemnon" may have been corny (and if Schliemann ever actually said it, wrong - whatever face he gazed on, it certainly wasn't King Agamemnon's).

Meyer thought in retrospect that the Ceti eel scenes might have been corny, but felt that Winfield's performance helped add gravity.

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The whole encounter couldn't have been cornier or more contrived.

They are corny.

It's corny".

It's corny and highhanded.

I thought it was corny.

Another said it was "corny".

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