Sentence examples for naff from inspiring English sources

I know it sounds naff, but it's true.

People are embarrassed of it, or it's a naff thing to describe yourself as, but if I didn't have acting, directing, music, then I'd struggle.

Despite its slightly naff name it was heaving with trendy locals, and no wonder as the food turned out to be fantastic: wonderful fried artichokes, seafood pasta and delicious pizza.

I don't want to sound naff, but what makes me happiest of all is being around my children.

I hate the label: it's naff, it smacks of key-swapping fondue parties".

Porridge was much loved by real prisoners, and popularised slang terms "naff", "nerk" and "scrote".

If you've inherited a naff kitchen with dodgy laminate cupboards, paint them using chalk-effect kitchen paint by B&Q or Annie Sloan.

Valérie Berry, valerieberry.com A big bowl of seriously bitter molten chocolate with crisp, salty olive-oil toasts for dippers … an extravagance of bold flavours that will definitively banish any naff chocolate fondue experience you may have had.

Perhaps all the many naff elements of current-day broadcasts will one day seem gloriously retro and we'll think back on them with fondness, but surely not like we do when we remember Richie, Bill, Tony and Ian in full flight.

On the other, its origins in poetry slams (not to mention her experience as a young playwright) lend it a slightly naff sense of worthiness that the Mercury judges never seem to find as off-putting as the rest of the population.

They didn't have a clear plan of where they wanted to go – and, indeed, none of them played an instrument at first – but they knew, says Turner, "what we didn't want to be", which was a naff American soft-rock band singing about private jets and platinum credit cards.