hokey in WordNet English dictionary

1. 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"
   artificial  contrived  hokey  stilted 
   
2. effusively or insincerely emotional
   "a bathetic novel"; "maudlin expressions of sympathy"; "mushy effusiveness"; "a schmaltzy song"; "sentimental soap operas"; "slushy poetry"
   bathetic  drippy  hokey  maudlin  mawkish  kitschy  mushy  schmaltzy  schmalzy  sentimental  soppy  soupy  slushy 
   

hokey in English Wiktionary