What's the difference between cheery and cheesy?

Cheery


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) 10.21am GMT Incidentally, we've just learned that September was a less cheery month for the eurozone.
  • (2) It was not our fault that we lost the game, I thought it was his.” Sunderland fans’ cheery endorsement of Allardyce’s appointment made the release of his autobiography happily timed, especially as, for now, the 60-year-old can still boast of never being relegated from the Premier League .
  • (3) Red-painted toenails make even the famous feet look cheery.
  • (4) On the walls of brightly lit meeting rooms – each named after garment manufacturing zones around the city – are posters of laughing, thin, beautiful young Europeans of varying ethnic backgrounds wearing the bright, cheery, fashionable clothes of the company's brands.
  • (5) She looks cheery when attacking, even cheerier when attacked and absolutely radiant when descending into a bog of half-truths and fictions.
  • (6) counsels their mother, whose superb cheeriness and pluck are the things with which we truly built the empire), and seek out new friends and entertainments.
  • (7) The shadow Treasury minister Cathy Jamieson insists the cheery figures on pay have been massaged and draw attention away from matters such as cuts to tax credits and child benefit, both of which have hit working families.
  • (8) With good music, icy cocktails, and a cheery, fine-looking clientele, Capitán de las Sardinas is the creation of the charismatic Carlos who went bust in the crisis, languished as a barista in London, and has returned to try again.
  • (9) If the axeman cometh, then he does so with a cheery smile and a glint in his eye, a man who once said his favourite Star Trek character was The Borg, “an alien species which is very similar to the Whips’ office … a collective consciousness dedicated to the eradication of all other species”.
  • (10) I won’t do it again.” But he was cheery enough later, stopping to sign balls for a gaggle of ball-kids on his way to interview.
  • (11) The crowd has a right to do what they want, to cheer for whoever they want.” But he was cheery enough later, stopping to sign balls for a gaggle of ball-kids on his way to interview.
  • (12) More woundingly for the careful cheeriness of the show, criticism from someone who hasn't earned somehow the right to give it inescapably takes on an unfortunate tone.
  • (13) That’s just one cheery takeaway from a report released by market research company Forrester this week.
  • (14) This year's star performer was Bethany Harcourt, a cheery girl with long red curls, who had bagged seven A*s to go with the A* in maths she got last year when she took the exam early.
  • (15) Sporting a black wifebeater vest and a fair amount of bling, the celebrity spoke intelligently about drug abuse before referencing gangsta rap ("as the great Tupac Shakur once said …") and leaving with a cheery "thanks for having us!"
  • (16) While lawyers try to put a cheery spin on its many recommendations, this is pretty tame stuff.
  • (17) Initially cheery and apparently light-hearted, with queries about who had won the World Cup, they soon deteriorated.
  • (18) He gave a cheery two fingers to the massed ranks of photographers as he arrived.
  • (19) Molly Smitten-Downes, United Kingdom Facebook Twitter Pinterest At first glance, Molly Smitten-Downes' reassuringly double-barrelled name and cheery Leicestershire visage makes her the ideal Eurovision voting option for viewers desperate for Britain's immediate withdrawal from the EU.
  • (20) It's full of scenes like this: the head of MI6, Sir John Sawers having a cheery one-to-one with Carl-Henric Svanberg, the chairman of BP.

Cheesy


Definition:

  • (a.) Having the nature, qualities, taste, form, consistency, or appearance of cheese.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Sheep infection trials indicate that the PLD-negative C. pseudotuberculosis strain (Toxminus) is incapable of inducing caseous lymphadentis (cheesy gland) even at doses two logs higher than that at which the wild-type strain produces the disease.
  • (2) And an incredibly cheesy Budweiser advert uses the bond between a man and his dog to promote road safety.
  • (3) Protection levels as high as 95% and 97.5% were attained in broilers vaccinated subcutaneously and no undesirable lesions or cheesy masses formed under the skin in the back of the necks of broilers.
  • (4) It might sound like the stuff of cheesy softcore but the film is subtle, controlled and low on nudity – the trappings of decor are treated more fetishistically than women's bodies – and Weigert's performance anchors the action in psychological complexity.
  • (5) He hasn’t stopped eating ice-cream, milk shakes, Cheesy Wotsits and chocolate.
  • (6) It seems that dystopian worlds create more drama and while I wouldn't say the original film was cheesy, it was camp.
  • (7) When these two children were examined bronchoscopically the tracheobronchial tree was found to be filled with white, cheesy material.
  • (8) In 2001 the retro-futurist Discovery revived appreciation for the kind of glossy soft-rock and sentimental 80s pop that most bands deemed too cheesy. "
  • (9) I popped in for a nightcap but end up staying for two hours, serenaded by locals murdering everything from Japanese power ballads to cheesy Brazilian pop and Bohemian Rhapsody.
  • (10) It feels like an award in itself, and before you just brush that off as being as cheesy as it sounds, after having been in the business for 20 years, this is the closest I’ve gotten to my childhood version of ‘making it’.
  • (11) So, if the only indulgence that is viable, that is within budget, that will not mean you have to walk to work, is a Styrofoam container of cheesy chips, the answer is a thunderous "YES".
  • (12) Trundling on a cheesy tourist trail around the Italian capital (the Trevi fountain, the Spanish Steps), it tells four whimsical stories that never intersect, meaning that its most watchable stars – Alec Baldwin, Penélope Cruz, Roberto Benigni and Allen, appearing in one of his movies for the first time since Scoop, in 2006 – never interact.
  • (13) Like so much of what Cage says and does, this should be cheesy, but somehow it isn't.
  • (14) Some are stylistic and structural: a fondness for bifurcated storytelling; characters and actors that shift from film to film; a tip of the hat to the cheesy Thai TV of his youth.
  • (15) The moussaka (£8.50) is heavenly: crunchy and cheesy on top, and intensely savoury below.
  • (16) And that schmaltzy Bronner's experience wouldn't be complete without lashings of cheesy slogans.
  • (17) "I mean, my children sometimes have Cheesy Wotsits, but my children are perfectly thin because they don't have them all the time.
  • (18) Capital Radio's drivetime DJ Lucio has been named as the new presenter of the UK's commercial chart show, Hit 40 UK, and has immediately thrown down the gauntlet to BBC Radio 1 saying its chart is "dismal, bland and cheesy".
  • (19) Dialogue Young Guns does a generally enjoyable line in cheesy, quotable, tough-guy speak.
  • (20) The Bee Gees became cheesy, Chic became cheesy, and by the 80s disco was a dirty word.