Adjective, : corny jokes. ,a corny soap opera. From Dictionary.com.
Boing Boing has an inbox victory page where people (cornily) celebrate their email-less inboxes. From Wordnik.com. [Megan Berry: The Future of Email: Evolve or Die?] Reference
And you could say -- cornily -- that it's a movie about the triumph of the human spirit, and you could contend that that's Christmasy. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs, cartoons, rotting fish, peevish men...] Reference
Yesterday at Ness's we went on this hike for about 3 hrs roundtrip to this amazing place simply called the Viewpoint where honestly and cornily, I felt on top of the world. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-07-01] Reference
"Xfinity is infinite potential," Comcast executive David Watson cornily tells Time. From Wordnik.com. [DSLreports - front page] Reference
I Am Legend's wayward third act, which begins with Neville cornily reciting lines from. From Wordnik.com. [GreenCine Daily] Reference
Girls Aloud season, with feverish, drooling anticipation for their new single, the cornily titled. From Wordnik.com. [XO's Middle Eight] Reference
And when Sandy asks him if he has a wife, he rather cornily says, "We didn't find anyone good enough for us.". From Wordnik.com. [Daily News & Analysis] Reference
With a few exceptions, the lyrics are somewhat trite and cornily rhymed (on "Empty Pictures," about the negative effects of media and advertising: "They can show you pictures of the world that looks so nice / But you can walk out of your door and see with your own eyes"). From Wordnik.com. [Playback:stl Syndication] Reference
The newspaper he built was full of idiosyncrasies and peculiarities, like the use of line drawings on the front page instead of photographs, the heavy use of peppy news briefs in lieu of stories, the not very funny daily cartoon cornily titled "Pepper ... and Salt," the right-wing editorial page, and the goofy human-interest story in the middle of every day's front page. From Wordnik.com. Reference
He doesn't take himself too seriously, and he's almost cornily television-soap looking in such a larger-than-life way that no-one else does either. From Wordnik.com. [Stuff.co.nz - Stuff] Reference
The patriarch may be as thoughtless or as hapless at being a father as most, and yet, because of the great stakes here, or because the mythology of the father and the father’s father exists within the family as almost a literal inheritance, or simply because the father, however cornily, is in love with his family, the Murdochs remain one of the last functioning, even highly capable dynasties in the Western world. From Wordnik.com. [The Secrets of His Succession] Reference
It is, cornily enough, the essence of life. From Wordnik.com. [Gawker: defamer] Reference
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