In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
HOKEY
artificial, contrived, hokey, stilted
(adjective) 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”
bathetic, drippy, hokey, maudlin, mawkish, kitschy, mushy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, sappy, soppy, soupy, slushy
(adjective) effusively or insincerely emotional; “a bathetic novel”; “maudlin expressions of sympathy”; “mushy effusiveness”; “a schmaltzy song”; “sentimental soap operas”; “slushy poetry”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
hokey (comparative hokier, superlative hokiest)
(US, colloquial) phony, as if a hoax; noticeably contrived; of obviously flimsy credibility or quality
(US, colloquial) corny; overly or unbelievably sentimental
Synonyms: cheesy, kitschy
Source: Wiktionary
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