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The Collaborative International Dictionary
cornball

cornball \corn"ball\ (k[^o]rn"b[add]l), a. same as corny[5].

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cornball

n. 1 (context US informal English) An unsophisticated person. 2 Something excessively corny. 3 A ball of popped corn stuck together with soft candy from molasses or sugar.

Usage examples of "cornball".

About the house that he had said we would buy, the programs we watched on TV, and the cornball things that happened.

I think: that his language is ostentatious, his tone cornball and melodramatic, his selection of facts preposterously self-serving.

Bill thought it was a great gag, the cornball rookie arriving in Hollywood with a suitcase and a dream.

Her rounded fleshy shoulders rolled to the music of the night, her full breasts heaved ecstatically to the music of the night, mournful music that oozed from the cellar dives of Isola, pounded with the beat of a glittering G-string, music that came with mathematical precision from the cool bop bistros, music that bounced with the cornball rhythms of the supper clubs.

Cynthia Cornball, a 49-year-old Bay Area artist, the idea of painting as an accumulative, notational process paralleling the mundaneness, tragedies and passing thoughts of every-day life is initially quite engaging.

Marianne recalled Patrick saying of the reproduction, What cornball stuff Mom!

Judy Garland, who had to rely on her cornball, moist-eyed, hitch-in-the-voice earnestness.

Odds on the Hollywood Commies subverting the country with their cornball propaganda turkeys, rallies and picket line highjinks: thirty trillion to one against, a longshot from Mars.

You hear less about the Illuminati today, probably because the whole thing is so cornball, and let's face it, after 200 years even the best conspiracy theory starts to get a little old.