Synonyms for corny
ˈkɔr nicorny

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1. cornyadjective

   Hackneyed or excessively sentimental.

   Synonyms:
   kitschy, kitsch

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1. bromidic, corny, platitudinal, platitudinousadjective

   dull and tiresome but with pretensions of significance or originality

   "bromidic sermons"

   Synonyms:
   bromidic, platitudinal, platitudinous

   Antonyms:
   original

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1. List of paraphrases for "corny":

   banal, tacky, cheesy, sentimental, dorky, has-been, trite, mundane

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How to use corny in a sentence?

1. Amy Ray:

   . . .you said good friends are hard to come by I laughed and bought you a beer 'cause it's too corny to cry well sentiment given and sentiment lost you shook it off with a smirk and a toss and you were only joking.

2. Simon Cowell:

   I like a little bit of sugar in my tea, but I like one teaspoon, that was like a whole bag of sugar. It was getting so corny … we have to de-corny you.

3. Merle Haggard:

   I didn’t like Johnny Cash, i thought he was kind of corny. I wasn’t really a fan.

4. Chris Noth:

   There had to be that last moment and no words, no corny dialogue, just a look, and I thought [King] did it so beautifully.