cornball
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7.5
- adjective
- /ˈkɔrnˌbɔl/
- Offensive
- We'd stop at every cornball tourist trap along the way.
- cornball humor
- cornball stuff
- kind of cornball
Examples
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THE GUY'S A HARMLESS, ETHICAL CORNBALL.
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The Little Spacecraft on the Prairie's mores and dialogue were implausible and cornball.
Blog text (13) -
I know it's a cornball thing.
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Oh, great, the cornball family!
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Well, I know this sounds cornball... but I'd like to somehow make a difference in people's lives.
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Eliot does his kind of unique, funny, cornball delivery.
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Your sentimental speeches and cornball patriotism... don't work on me anymore... because I don't believe you.
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His cornball jokes never fail to make us laugh, even if they are a bit silly.
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She called his attempts at romance cornball, but she secretly enjoyed his old-fashioned charm.
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We watched a cornball holiday movie that made us laugh at its exaggerated sentimentality.
Synonyms
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4.6
Feels too sentimental and silly, like a movie or card
80
5.8
Not original and trying to be touching but it feels silly
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4.3
Showy in a cheap way that looks bad
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8.2
Too sentimental or brightly decorated and not in good taste
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9.9
Old-fashioned and not open to new ideas
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9.9
Looking plain and out of fashion in a dull way
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8.4
A little silly and too sentimental, feeling fake
Antonyms
How Corny
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Cornball comes from the older word corny, which comes from corn and the idea of something 'common' or plain from country life. So if something is cornball it feels silly, old-fashioned, or too sentimental.