(a.) Strong, stiff, or hard, like a horn; resembling horn.
(a.) Producing corn or grain; furnished with grains of corn.
(a.) Containing corn; tasting well of malt.
(a.) Tipsy.
Example Sentences:
(1) Yes, sounding on about the ethical dimension to public service can sound corny and implausible when you have ministers rubbishing the state and all its works, but you and the vast majority of your civil service colleagues are doing the job because you are idealists.
(2) This is so corny, what I'm saying, but I feel obliged to drone on about it, because before we reach the tipping point, it's time to stop sneering at fat people, being disapproving and bossing them about: walk to work, eat your greens, control yourselves.
(3) As well as political statements and corny clown jokes, Madonna lamented the fact she was “very single” and had not had sex for some time.
(4) Mixed into that are musings on Darwin and the Catholic church, a tender reflection on the death of her dog Lolabelle, and more than a few corny jokes, delivered with her hypnotic, almost disbelieving pitch.
(5) For 20 dazzling years he was "as corny as Kansas in August, high as a flag on the fourth of July."
(6) It sounds corny, but he just looked so much brighter.” But Forde’s hardships are far from over.
(7) It is directed by Alastair Fothergill and Mark Linfield, veterans of the BBC's distinguished Natural History unit, but instead of the soothing, informative tones of David Attenborough, the narrator here is Tim Allen, aka Buzz Lightyear, who strikes a rather different tone: cosy, child-friendly, often corny, and all but devoid of any scientific explanation.
(8) It is a scene of such potent and telling symbolism that it verges, tremulously, on the corny.
(9) "It sounds corny, but it was a bit like the blitz almost.
(10) "At the risk of sounding corny, it's about the absolute bliss of the grooves," he says.
(11) Fructus Corni (FC) decoction inhibits the increase of peritoneal capillary permeability by ip 0.7% acetic acid in mice, the proliferation of granuloma formed by implanting cotton pellets in rats, the swelling of mouse pinnea with xylene and the edema of hind paw induced by injection of fresh egg white 0.1 ml in rats.
(12) It sounds a bit corny to say, but it was a bit like the blitz almost.
(13) His easy charm lit up rooms and his corny, often-self deprecating jokes made people laugh.
(14) From the excised uterus segments (uterus corni) histological preparations stained with hematoxylin and eosin were made.
(15) They're corny, mawkish – but they're shameless enough to get you to press the button.
(16) The expectation of black female submission to white masculinity is so ingrained in our culture, Garrison Keillor found it corny enough to compose a love ballad called Tom and Sally – between Thomas Jefferson and his slave, Sally Hemings – on the public radio show A Prairie Home Companion.
(17) "This isn't corny ape makeup and leather jumpsuits.
(18) The presence of the parents provokes corny psychology lessons on dysfunctional families, and Helen's originality and ingenuity seem less remarkable when attributed to family trauma.
(19) I don’t want to sound corny but it’s exceeded all my expectations.” She said she mastered “counting to 10” in the camp after admitting it was hard for her to watch other people cooking – a point of contention throughout the competition.
(20) Cornie Huizenga of Slocat , a partnership of UN organisations, development banks and other groups committed to low carbon transport, said the transport strategy was a politically astute way to cut emissions, which can be a sensitive issue in many countries.
Kitsch
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) But this time warp is a Seville one, and all the statues of (ecclesiastical) virgins, winged cherubs, shrines and other Catholic paraphernalia, plus portraits of the late Duchess of Alba, give it a unique spirit, as do the clientele – largely local, despite Garlochí’s international fame as the city’s most kitsch bar.
(2) The video was shot in three different locations across Moscow: a kitsch fort above the city’s Ismailovsky market; an abandoned and unheated Soviet-era palace of culture; and a disused jail.
(3) • 01323 411077, treasure-island.info ; children £5, adults £2.50, half price after 3pm Travis Elborough is author of Wish You Were Here: England on Sea Handpainted signs in Norfolk by Teena Vallerine, blogger on kitsch All along the Norfolk coast – from Hunstanton through Wells and Cromer, all the way around to Great Yarmouth – there are seaside towns that bring out the child in me.
(4) Coca-Cola, cactus and flight safety manual illustrations form the basis of the kitsch prints.
(5) Dozens of trams, lit up as trains, planes and cruise ships, rattle underneath miles of garish light bulbs, dozens of arcades playing every kitsch anthem there has ever been, from Agadoo to the Nolans, while families in daft hats eat candy in the shape of giant penises.
(6) But the film soon plummets into well-meaning kitsch, not least because of Béjo's excruciatingly gauche performance.
(7) The experience of kitsch can be identified when the spectator feels coerced by exaggerated, unconvincing theatrical devices, and fails to experience genuine empathy with the characters in a play.
(8) • blackpoolpier.co.uk Wayne Hemingway runs Hemingway Design and the Vintage at Goodwood festival ( vintageatgoodwood.com , 13-15 August) Treasure Island park, Eastbourne, Sussex by Travis Elborough, author As a nation whose empire was forged by the dubious activities of maritime privateers, it is not so surprising the British continue to find the pirate an object of romantic if kitsch fascination, commemorated in pub names, restaurants, fairground rides and theme parks in seaside towns around the country.
(9) Photograph: Alamy Film buffs should love the kitsch Hollywood stylings of this hotel, which is awash with gilded statues, columns, marble and chandeliers.
(10) The state-run Beijing News said the Modern College of North-west University, located in Xi’an, had strung up banners around the campus reading “Strive to be outstanding sons and daughters of China , oppose kitsch western holidays” and “Resist the expansion of western culture”.
(11) Turn to other online shops Ebay celebrated 15 years of activity in the UK in 2014, when it sold 3bn items – not all of them kitsch memorabilia.
(12) Later, I returned, every school holiday, from the dark satanic mills of Blackburn to the seaside kitsch that adorned my nan's bungalow, a stone's throw from the promenade, funfairs and piers.
(13) For south-west ambience without the kitsch, seek out the Hermosa Inn and its Last Drop cocktail bar for drinks with a Sonoran desert twist.
(14) But then you’re rudely awaken out of your kitsch reverie by remembering quite what will be left, and at what cost it all came.
(15) A university in north-western China has banned Christmas , calling it a “kitsch” foreign celebration unbefitting of the country’s own traditions and making its students watch propaganda films instead, state media said on Thursday.
(16) Rogers's architecture has its absurdities, but will be remembered when Terry's name appears only in footnotes appearing in books about kitsch.
(17) Kitsch beachcomber paintings adorn the walls; bartenders in Hawaiian shirts serve cocktails in conch shells.
(18) A Guardian colleague has already expressed the hope , probably vainly, that the art work will not be “a dire chunk of conservative kitsch”, but something abstract, contemporary.
(19) Atmosphere is everything at the Dark Horse, where the decor approaches kitsch, then veers smoothly into oddball creativity.
(20) • visitblackpool.com Vintage events , Margate, Kent Margate is a riot of kitsch and somewhat saucy seaside shenanigans.