From WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003) [wn]:
hokey
adj 1: effusively or insincerely emotional; "a bathetic novel";
"maudlin expressons of sympathy"; "mushy
effusiveness"; "a schmaltzy song"; "sentimental soap
operas"; "slushy poetry" [syn: bathetic, drippy,
maudlin, mawkish, mushy, schmaltzy,
schmalzy, sentimental, slushy]
2: artificially formal; "that artificial humility that her
husband hated"; "contrived coyness"; "a stilted letter of
acknowledgment"; "when people try to correct their speech
they develop a stilted pronunciation" [syn: artificial,
contrived, stilted]