(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.
Kitschy
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) "We wanted something kitschy, sexy and glammy," explained John Hassay, who commissioned the video.
(2) Especially on-trend these days is an ersatz, kitschy friendliness .
(3) K-pop is kitschy, catchy, highly produced, seamlessly choreographed, skilfully marketed and performed by (mostly) young, unthreateningly good-looking boy and girl bands with devoted, tech-savvy followings.
(4) He told the Observer that he wants to create a sculpture that is "deeply rooted" in the great tradition of Islamic architecture: "When Louis XIV was building that kitschy castle Versailles, the greatest architecture in the Middle East had incredible simplicity … and play with colours."
(5) Think PVC raincoats, retro jacquard prints and kitschy fascinators.
(6) What started last Monday as a relatively small, peaceful protest to save an inner city Istanbul park from having to make way for a kitschy Ottoman-style shopping centre, rapidly snowballed into the largest and most violent anti-government protests that Turkey has seen in years.
(7) New attractions include an ice rink, a bowling alley, a water park and a dolphinarium with a kitschy show.
(8) At Electric Daisy Carnival and similar dance festivals, the look has evolved from the child-like "candy raver" of the 1990s, with their pigtails and cuddly toys and pacifiers (dummies), to a slick and sexified yet also kitschy-surreal image midway between Venice Beach and Cirque Du Soleil, Willy Wonka and a Gay Pride parade: girls in Daisy Dukes and bikini tops (or even bare breasts daubed in glittery body paint) but who also wear tutus, giant furry boots in turquoise and hot pink, and fairy wings.
(9) And finally – the weirdest one for me – there's Jeff Koons, known for his vast, kitschy sculptures and his unparalleled ability to make money.
(10) Were it not for their kitschy pop antics, I might not be the massive feminist I am today.
(11) It's true that some people run as a kitschy, corny, tourist-like thing to do, but many of these people are still surprised at how emotional they feel at the top of the steps."
(12) Together they've made an album of duets that's neither kitschy nor cutesy, but full of sincere, deceptively gentle songs that carry lightly the pain in their lyrics.