schlocky

Example Sentences

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In a single-star review, the Guardian's Benjamin Lee called the film "as dumb and schlocky as the worst of the genre, with lousy network TV effects, uninvolving action and unfunny and inelegant dialogue".

From BBC • Feb. 14, 2024

It is lightly schlocky in the 1980s way — ultra-saccharine, hyper-melodramatic — a diminishing resource in the contemporary pop landscape.

From New York Times • May 6, 2023

It's like the artist who makes a beautiful picture, but is not content then to churn out schlocky copies of that for tourists for the next forty years.

From Salon • May 15, 2022

Now I was wearing a schlocky John Riggins jersey and dress slacks.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 10, 2022

That is my favorite Dylan album, but that nonsense is too schlocky for someone of Dylan’s stature.

From Washington Post