(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.
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.