(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.
Trite
Definition:
(a.) Worn out; common; used until so common as to have lost novelty and interest; hackneyed; stale; as, a trite remark; a trite subject.
Example Sentences:
(1) Berg sat with Leija on Thursday evening, learning to sing Chris Medina's What Are Words, which includes lyrics that could be considered unbearably trite were they not now so fitting: "And I know an angel was sent just for me, And I know I'm meant to be where I am, And I'm gonna be, Standing right beside her tonight."
(2) "That might sound trite, but it does feel that way.
(3) Giles Oakley London • In conception and format, it was trite – while being undeservedly pompous and self-esteeming.
(4) It sounds trite now, but I was born in '58, so when I was seven or eight the city [of Liverpool] was awash with music.
(5) Inside that trite sentence, “We need to figure out how to make this work for everyone,” hides the skeleton of a monster.
(6) The three-day Baltimore retreat exposed discord within the ranks, but largely the same leadership espoused trite slogans that long predated Trump.
(7) Although it might seem trite to point out that tissue sampling is a potential source of experimental error, this survey disclosed that even experienced investigators in fact often work with cartilage that is contaminated by non-cartilaginous tissue of which they were unaware.
(8) I should, by rights, have produced a 300-word listicle containing trite, observational humour about self-service checkouts, but disappointingly, Buzzfeed got there first .
(9) A case in point is The Black Eyed Peas song Where Is The Love?, which when heard on the radio can seem a bit trite in its appeal for pan-global understanding, but in this context chimed perfectly with the need for clear, emphatic statements following trauma.
(10) The guest list pass from the 3rdeyegirl gig is still stuck fast to the inside of my jacket To say Prince was a rare figure, even in the glorified secure unit that is pop, is a little trite.
(11) Over the past few years of recession and regression, it has become a trite truism of European politics that you can't go wrong going to the right.
(12) These relations are in reality, not just as a trite phrase, a potential "win-win situation".
(13) I also wanted to slightly complicate rather than clarify the Nick situation because it’s so easy to come up with trite answers – that he came from a stuffy, upper-middle-class background, nobody understood him.
(14) To say it is a victory for hope may sound trite and cliched, but it is really the only explanation for what has occurred.
(15) In the case of Podemos, repeatedly attacking la casta (the elites) may seem simple or trite on paper, as some have argued, but expressing your disavowal in the context of Spain’s domination by a corrupt, unreformable “regime of 78” (the year of the post-Franco constitution) which is in thrall to the troika and their friends in the bailed-out banks, as well as 40 years of Francoist patriarchy before that, becomes potentially transcendent.
(16) "It is just not good enough to give a trite phrase saying we will learn lessons if you don't learn the lessons and if you don't make sure on a regular basis that the lessons have filtered down to your officers.
(17) He told the BBC: "I wasn't having a go at multiculturalism itself, I was having a go at the rather trite way, frankly, it was represented in the opening ceremony.
(18) For whose benefit are those early Sunday morning photos of piles of finished marking accompanied by a trite, self-congratulatory message?
(19) I have read it three times to satisfy myself that there is nothing trivial, trite or ridiculous about it.
(20) Inside that trite sentence, 'We need to figure out how to make this work for everyone,' hides the skeleton of a monster I disagree that the old way is better.