(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.
Tipsy
Definition:
(superl.) Being under the influence of strong drink; rendered weak or foolish by liquor, but not absolutely or completely drunk; fuddled; intoxicated.
(superl.) Staggering, as if from intoxication; reeling.
Example Sentences:
(1) P51 The Independent Farage to be grilled by tipsy Gogglebox couple.
(2) This week, rebels burst into a slot machine parlour shortly after curfew and beat up the tipsy patrons, he said.
(3) Seventeen novella-like chapters fictionalise the key phases of Ballard's life from 1937 to 1987, starting with his childhood in Shanghai where the rich, perpetually tipsy westerners play tennis, go shopping and sidestep the growing mound of refugee bodies felled by hunger, typhus and bombs.
(4) Likewise the spaceships, the weapons, the sliding titles, the masks, the wheezing and all those intergalactic beasties, as if someone drew a hippo while tipsy.
(5) Its website is fronted by the flatly strange line " A recovery made by the many and built to last " – which rather suggests a tipsy adviser messing about with a magnetic poetry kit.
(6) Grab a drink from the bar (the table service is historically slow, and it's not really that charming) and head out to the deck, where you can play a few games of tipsy ping pong before the show starts.
(7) At the time of blood sampling, the men were asked to estimate their feelings of intoxication according to an arbitrary scale on which the score 10 indicated 'tipsy' or a 'little high'.
(8) She is shown sprawled, as if drowsy or tipsy, on a sofa and the couple are separated by the ominously black cavern of a doorway.
(9) It was shortly after 11pm and the new mother, who was on her first night out since giving birth, was feeling a little tipsy.
(10) When we were at the station, the police officer said: ‘I’ve never seen anyone blow that and be as normal as you.’ I said: ‘I really don’t feel drunk at all, not even tipsy’, so I was really shocked at the reading.
(11) Postings on social media sites remembering one deceased gang member who was a friend of Abedi’s show his photograph with the words: “If I die will the mandem [slang for gang] miss me, would they ride, talk about me when they tipsy, I can’t lie it feels like death wants to take me.” In south Manchester, a man of Libyan origin who knows Abedi’s family, said the absence of his father must have had an impact.
(12) Jess Phillips’ was probably the best , because it read like she wrote it on the notes app when tipsy and that it was directed at a former lover.
(13) It's an unfussy tart; one that's none the worse for being rustled up late at night when slightly tipsy.
(14) I’ll definitely be voting for a free Scotland,” confirms the tipsy traveller as the train reaches Stirling, scene of Robert the Bruce’s underdog victory over Edward II’s army at Bannockburn in 1314.
(15) Other cover stars, one for each category, are ballerina Misty Copeland (pioneer), actor Bradley Cooper (artist), Univision news anchor Jorge Ramos (leader) and the occasionally tipsy supreme court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg (icon).
(16) And with one tipsy slip, she falls out the window .
(17) Facing each other across a quayside street are the fun and frisky Dice Bar , where I’ve spent many a tipsy Friday night, and the agreeably diveish Frank Ryan’s .
(18) A ‘tipsy’ Gove has launched an extraordinary wine-fuelled attack on Boris Johnson, saying he ‘has no gravitas and is unfit to lead the nation’,” is how the Mail on Sunday reported it.
(19) The winner came in the 111th minute courtesy of Jesse Lingard’s equivalent of Lee Martin’s famous goal when these sides met at the old Wembley 26 years earlier and Alan Pardew might come to regret his touchline dance when Puncheon volleyed past David de Gea and Palace’s manager showed the moves of a tipsy uncle at a wedding.