Sentence examples for hokey from inspiring English sources
adjective
Phony, as if a hoax; noticeably contrived; of obviously flimsy credibility or quality
Cowell has affected to chuck him on the scrapheap once before, only to relent, and almost every returning X Factor series has seen similar hokey cokey over the preciousness of Louis' position.
Stopping Pulp Fiction from being made would have saved me a lot of personal strife – especially all the strife I encountered studying film at university during its relative afterglow, where people would pad out their hokey three-minute plots with swaths and swaths of tedious babble about continental hamburgers and the imagined subtexts hidden within Achy Breaky Heart.
His campaign features hokey "evenings with Angelika and Jürgen Rüttgers" at which voters learn that he haunts DIY shops on holiday in France.Two misfortunes have transformed a walkover into a race.
Hot Doc, a Greek investigative magazine, then got hold of another copy and published all 2,000 names.In this section Slow, but popular Doubts over competence Light at the end of the tunnel Enfant terrible United against Jobbik Cool pragmatism The euro hokey cokey ReprintsSeveral politicians and their wives and many members of prominent business families appear on the list.
"As hokey as some people may think it is, I'm selling South Carolina as this great, new, positive state that everybody needs to look at .In this section A new prescription for the poor From prison to jail One step forward, one back The drawn-out primary calendar Hello, sunshine!
It is a hokey Highlands tale, crammed with dodgy kilts and still dodgier lyrics—"Don't ye ken, There's a fair, Down on MacConnachy Square?"—but the premise is oddly moving.
In a hokey question and answer moment, he challenged the crowd to name a commission official.
Meanwhile, Britain is again as (semi-) engaged in Europe as it was before the pre-Iraq split, hokey-cokeying with the European Union and wrangling with its other members as it has always done.
A good chunk has gone to upstart electronic-trading platforms, such as Direct Edge and BATS, which execute trades in milliseconds.In this section Doing the hokey-cokey A few minutes of mayhem High hopes, low returns The other vampires Maul street The fear of all sums High stakes From ships to bits ReprintsRegulations have not kept up.
And despite the heat of Ras Dashen in Ethiopia's Simien mountains, we'd taught giggling children the hokey-cokey at 4,000m.
They became theatrical producers and made solo stage appearances until 1912, when they were briefly reunited to produce Hokey-Pokey at the Broadway Music Hall, which Weber had continued to manage; and in 1918 in Philadelphia in Back Again.
