corny
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It sounds so corny, but...I believe it really is actually the little things are the big things.
From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026
The story is a hectic combination of silly imagery and corny dialogue that, despite being written and directed by two men, Joel Crawford and Januel P. Mercado, loudly insists on its own girl power.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
But more often than not, the combination comes off forced; corny at best, insipid at worst.
From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2026
This is going to sound corny, but I recently tried Guac Daddy with my boyfriend, Dan.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
I guess I chickened out, afraid that to offer words of thanks for the pig and the mushrooms and the forests and the garden would come off sounding corny.
From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan
“She’s a little bit cornier than us,” senior guard Charisma Osborne said, “but yeah, I think she really sets the standard.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 29, 2024
The soup tasted cornier than what you gnaw off the cob, because they roast the cobs to make the stock.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 14, 2017
While “Barbiere” has the more popular name — and the cornier jokes — “I Puritani” is by far the greater opera.
From New York Times ● Jan. 10, 2017
In fact, the cornier the quips, the more they seemed to like it.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 6, 2015
Her mom and dad, together and apart, weirdly hovering over her hospital bed like aliens from movies even cornier than teenage family dramas.
From "Look Both Ways" by Jason Reynolds
Convery has nicely feathered hair and a character burdened by the plot’s corniest contrivances: a bully stubbornly pursuing him to the literal end of civilization, a lost pet dog that he’s determined to rescue.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
Paying for a blue check is the corniest thing you can do.
From Salon ● Sep. 21, 2023
Yet it didn’t, because neither of these teams will relent, will give, will meet the moment with anything but the corniest, most wonderful spit-in-your-eye.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 30, 2017
Even the corniest summer blockbusters now regularly clock in at two-and-a-half hours.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 9, 2017
My mom and dad lived the corniest of love stories, and as 1 got older, it embarrassed me to no end.
From "Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel" by Harlan Coben
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