hokey

Adjective

• 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
    

• effusively or insincerely emotional
  • a bathetic novel
    
  • maudlin expressions of sympathy
    
  • mushy effusiveness
    
  • a schmaltzy song
    
  • sentimental soap operas
    
  • slushy poetry
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  artificial , contrived , stilted