<p><strong>Adjective</strong></p><ul><li>hokier</li><li>hokiest</li><li>overly sentimental; mawkish: Two glasses of wine and he gets unbearably hokey; it's hard to believe he's a highly paid executive!</li><li>obviously contrived, especially to win popular appeal or support; phony: The hokey stories of his impoverished childhood always surface at election time.</li></ul><p><strong>Synonyms</strong></p><ul><li>mushy</li><li>goopy</li><li>cloying</li><li>melodramatic</li><li>maudlin</li><li>corny</li><li>spurious</li><li>sham</li><li>counterfeit</li><li>artificial</li><li>false</li><li>fake</li></ul>