CORNY | definition in the Cambridge English Dictionary

Meaning of corny in English

corny
adjective
  informal
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/ˈkɔːr.ni/ uk
/ˈkɔː.ni/
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(especially of jokes, movies, stories, etc.) showing no new ideas or too often repeated, and therefore not funny or interesting:
corny jokes
I couldn't watch the whole movie - it was just too corny.
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Tedious and uninspiring
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(Definition of corny from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

corny | Intermediate English

corny
adjective
  infml
us
/ˈkɔr·ni/
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emotional and obvious from having been used too often:
It sounds corny, but when I get to the beach I feel like a kid again.
(Definition of corny from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of corny

corny
Would you still love a corny novelty song if you couldn't ignore the creepy undertones?
From ThinkProgress
Then she would spend what felt like hours perusing the shelves, looking for a card with the perfect touch of corny.
From NPR
It was kind of cool, but it was also corny.
From The Verge
Practically everyone who's eaten a corny dog has fallen in love at first bite.
From Dallas Morning News
I like his parenting style, even if some of his gambits seem corny.
From NPR
Some of them make us cringe a little, some of them are so corny they embarrass us, and some of them are just really funny.
From Huffington Post
He was funny, maybe a bit corny, but that is what one would expect with a seasoned entertainer.
From Los Angeles Times
That you struggle with in any form of it -- there's that old corny phrase, it ain't show art, it's show business.
From CNN
Skip, who's in charge of quality control, has typically eaten 48 corny dogs during each fair.
From Dallas Morning News
The movie that she's in is faux-glossy and truly corny, superficial, and banal.
From The New Yorker
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in Chinese (Traditional)
（尤指笑話、電影、故事等）陳腐的，老套的, 平淡的，乏味的…
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（尤指笑话、电影、故事等）陈腐的，老套的, 平淡的，乏味的…
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manido, cursi, cursi [masculine-feminine]…
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batido, batido/-da [masculine-feminine]…
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defalarca tekrarlanan, eski, bilinen…
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éculé/-ée, banal…
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古（ふる）くさい…
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afgezaagd…
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všední, otřepaný…
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fortærsket, forslidt…
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basi, usang…
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không thú vị…
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oklepany, banalny…
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fånig, larvig, banal…
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sudah basi…
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abgedroschen…
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forslitt, gammel, billig…
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заяложений, утертий…
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банальный, избитый…
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