Corny
/ˈkɔːrni/adjective
Unoriginal and predictable, usually in a cheesy or sentimental way.
His jokes were so corny that everyone just groaned.
Often appears as...
- corny joke
- corny line
Usage tips
Informal, Disapproving
Colloquial
adjective
Relating to corn or maize.
He had corny hands from handling the crop all afternoon.
Often appears as...
- corny crop
- corny texture
adjective
Unoriginal and predictable, usually in a cheesy or sentimental way.
His jokes were so corny that everyone just groaned.
Often appears as...
- corny joke
- corny line
Usage tips
Informal, Disapproving
Colloquial
adjective
Relating to corn or maize.
He had corny hands from handling the crop all afternoon.
Often appears as...
- corny crop
- corny texture
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Pop Culture
Often found in old movies, songs, or TV shows poking fun at sentimentality or predictable romance.
The rom-com was full of corny lines from the 80s.
Pro Tip 2/3Humor Context
Used to describe jokes or humor that's overly simple, trying too hard to be funny.
Dad's corny puns always make us laugh despite being predictable.
Pro Tip 3/3Emotional Tone
May indicate something overly emotional, trying to evoke a response with little substance.
The speech was sincere but a bit too corny for my taste.
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Pawan Sinha on how...
again, slim or none. So when I heard these two things, it troubled me deeply, both because of personal reasons and scientific reasons. So let me first start with the personal reason. It'll sound corny, but it's sincere.
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Reframing Black History...
gravity and it pulls me into the picture and how do you create that what is it that you do to create a picture that pulls a reader in like that if there's a thing because you know i i also believe that and this is gonna sound corny but there's there's to everything in life whether it's
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Pawan Sinha on how...
again, slim or none. So when I heard these two things, it troubled me deeply, both because of personal reasons and scientific reasons. So let me first start with the personal reason. It'll sound corny, but it's sincere.
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Quote examples
Kendrick Lamar
American Musician
Sometimes you have the trends that's not that cool. You may have certain artists portraying these trends and don't really have that lifestyle, and then it gives off the wrong thing. And it becomes kinda corny after awhile. It's really about keeping hip-hop original and pushing away the corniness in it.
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Nuno Bettencourt
Portuguese Musician
It's hard being in a band. It's hard being in a relationship like that. But at the end of the day, when you have great fans, as corny as that sounds, if the fans show up and the passion that they have, they're the ones that make us want to keep going.
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Joan Jett
American Musician
When you're onstage and the audience is smiling and singing and bopping along and you're all on the same level, it's the best feeling in the world. It may sound dumb and corny to say it, but it's like pure love.
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Rob Kardashian
American Celebrity
I think it's corny and cheesy for a dude to holler at a girl. That's just disrespectful in my mind. I may talk to girls, but I don't hang with girls; I don't date girls. I haven't really found anybody.
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Susan Orlean
American Journalist
Every corny thing that's said about living with nature - being in harmony with the earth, feeling the cycle of the seasons - happens to be true.
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Enrique Iglesias
Spanish Musician
We all feel love, and that might sound kind of corny, but I really feel that's what joins musicians together around the world.
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Jacky Rosen
American Politician
I was raised to believe that you need to leave the world a better place than how you found it, as corny as that sounds.
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John 5
American Musician
I know it sounds corny, but I think the meaning of life is to do what you love and be happy.
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Irving Berlin
American Musician
There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.
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Lauren Conrad
American Designer
Scripts are corny and predictable. Real life is always better.
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Kendrick Lamar
American Musician
Sometimes you have the trends that's not that cool. You may have certain artists portraying these trends and don't really have that lifestyle, and then it gives off the wrong thing. And it becomes kinda corny after awhile. It's really about keeping hip-hop original and pushing away the corniness in it.
Quote examples
Nuno Bettencourt
Portuguese Musician
It's hard being in a band. It's hard being in a relationship like that. But at the end of the day, when you have great fans, as corny as that sounds, if the fans show up and the passion that they have, they're the ones that make us want to keep going.
Quote examples
Joan Jett
American Musician
When you're onstage and the audience is smiling and singing and bopping along and you're all on the same level, it's the best feeling in the world. It may sound dumb and corny to say it, but it's like pure love.
Quote examples
Rob Kardashian
American Celebrity
I think it's corny and cheesy for a dude to holler at a girl. That's just disrespectful in my mind. I may talk to girls, but I don't hang with girls; I don't date girls. I haven't really found anybody.
Quote examples
Susan Orlean
American Journalist
Every corny thing that's said about living with nature - being in harmony with the earth, feeling the cycle of the seasons - happens to be true.
Quote examples
Enrique Iglesias
Spanish Musician
We all feel love, and that might sound kind of corny, but I really feel that's what joins musicians together around the world.
Quote examples
Jacky Rosen
American Politician
I was raised to believe that you need to leave the world a better place than how you found it, as corny as that sounds.
Quote examples
John 5
American Musician
I know it sounds corny, but I think the meaning of life is to do what you love and be happy.
Quote examples
Irving Berlin
American Musician
There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.
Quote examples
Lauren Conrad
American Designer
Scripts are corny and predictable. Real life is always better.
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