1. Artificially formal
   "His hokey performance failed to convince the audience";
   - artificial, contrived, stilted
    
2. Effusively or insincerely emotional
   "a hokey novel";
   - bathetic, drippy [informal], maudlin, mawkish, kitschy, mushy [informal], schmaltzy [informal], schmalzy [informal], sentimental, sappy [informal], soppy [Brit, informal], soupy [informal], slushy [informal], corny [informal], cutesy [informal], gooey [informal], weepy [informal], cheesy [informal]

Derived forms: hokier, hokiest

See also: affected, cornball [N. Amer, informal], emotional, lovey-dovey [informal], unnatural

Encyclopedia: Hokey