1. Tepilit watches as the district officer performs a brief hokey-cokey before falling face down.

2. It actually sounds really hokey to say it standing up here, but when you try to put it in practice, it's really powerful.

3. Contrived: 1 adj showing effects of planning or manipulation “a novel with a Contrived ending” Synonyms: planned designed or carried out according to a plan adj artificially formal “ Contrived coyness” Synonyms: artificial , hokey , stilted affected , unnatural speaking or behaving in …

4. Here are all the possible meanings and translations of the word Bathetic. Princeton's WordNet (4.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition: Bathetic, drippy, hokey, maudlin, mawkish, kitschy, mushy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, soppy, soupy, slushy (adj) effusively or insincerely emotional