(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.
Hokey
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) EU hokey-cokey: in, out, shake it all about (not necessarily in that order) | Letter Read more “It is interesting that both sides want to adopt Boris,” one Johnson ally said.
(2) Justice League is supposedly due in just two years' time, and we still don't have the standalone Wonder Woman movie required to bring that rather hokey old character into the burgeoning "darker" Nolanesque take on the DC universe.
(3) Last May’s bizarre resignation hokey cokey – was he out or was he in?
(4) Would MPs from Scotland be brought back in what a Scottish Labour MP George Foulkes called a kind of 'legislative hokey-cokey', to vote just on these particular clauses?
(5) Nick Clegg is adopting what we might call the hokey-cokey position.
(6) Two years prior to this, Kearney condemned the, er… hokey cokey .
(7) I don’t mean nice in the “Aw shucks, little ol’ me?” hokey Tom Hanks kind of nice .
(8) Rise began a little hokey, and no one is going to accuse Freida Pinto of giving a good performance, but take state-of-the-art motion capturing, ambiguous moral culpability, a few bananas and you have a thrilling action film.
(9) Admittedly a little hokey, as films about the Irish by the English tend to be, it categorically did not deserve the backlash it received: 'The art it represents belongs to that school of very classy calendar art supported by airlines, insurance corporations and a few enlightened barber shops.
(10) But as a Cambridge University study has shown, the process is likely to prove little more than a game of Euro hokey cokey, with the risk that Britain ends up compromising its ability to police international crimes such as terrorism and drug trafficking.
(11) 9.51pm BST 90+2 min: … after the ball hokey-cokeys in and out of the box, it eventually drops to Sergio Ramos who can't make a clean connection from eight yards out.
(12) He delivers a homespun message of hard work and self-reliance, of dreaming big and being able to look in the mirror each night and be proud of yourself which verges on the hokey, but the rapt attention of his audience makes it hard to be cynical.
(13) That Easton crossover, from local girl made good, through the agency of hokey telly and novelty-song pop charts, to global star, riding high in the Billboard charts, the chosen workmate of this extraordinary creature, Prince?
(14) Game stories are often pretty hokey, but they're compelling because we're in control.
(15) Photograph: SA Mathieson The last event is held alongside Rhymetime, whose infant participants fill the library with Hokey Cokey.
(16) and hapless cod romance, interspersed with hokey landmine photo-ops and scenic cultural detours through Lahore".
(17) The Sinn Féin president, Gerry Adams, branded Robinson’s move as “hokey-cokey” politics with one leg in the devolved government and one leg out.
(18) I know it sounds a bit hokey, but we’re closer to nature.
(19) Ed Miliband mocked the prime minister for a "weekend Hokey Cokey".
(20) Given the way Warner allowed Entourage to lampoon the king of Atlantis a few years back, you might think the studio would be loth to include that slightly hokey old character in the more realistic universe it launched with last year's Man of Steel.