hokey

While it might feel hokey to call Spangler a feel-good American success story, it’s about as close to one as you can get in corporate America these days.

Some people, it turns out, approach a hokey seasonal activity as they would an Olympic race: Speed is the goal.

But it was also a little bit hokey.

For those outside the athletic community, it may seem hokey and illusory.

People buy decorative rocks or materials that look pretty in the store “but end up looking hokey around the pond because you don’t see those materials anywhere else in the yard,” he said.