corny

Preposition: as

hell: It's as corny as hell, but totally involving and moving.

Adjective complement with noun phrase

• sound: It always sounded a bit corny to me, personally.
• get: It's a cunning story structure that works brilliantly even when it gets a bit corny.

Modifies a noun

• joke: I get some of the corny jokes from my own children - sometimes they try to make me pay for them!
• movie: Then on from there to a curry at Sabera, and from there to watch some corny bad horror movies.
• dialog: Err, I mean, love the corny dialog, bub!
• name: Spike the unusual ( unusual for us ) visitor with the corny name!
• thing: All those corny things you've seen in films actually do add atmosphere.
• dialog: Even with the corny dialog, contrived plotting and dodgy special effects.

Modifying Another Word

• slightly: These are the old, slightly corny examples of the net's political potential.
• rather: Eventually when the plot takes over from the twisted interrelationships, the film begins to feel rather corny and contrived.
• pretty: I thought the magazine in the 1990's looked pretty corny.
• too: Without sounding too corny she is a wonderful person who deserves a good husband.
• little: It may sound a little corny, but I like to visit places where few can go.
• so: It's so corny, but it's very hard not to shed a tear.

Infinitive complement

say: It's corny to say that this ' puts things into perspective ' , as I know terrible things happen every day.

Used with adjective complement

• sound: Also, at the risk of sounding corny, the opportunity to do the project was a bit of a reward in itself.
• seem: I really didn't want it to seem corny - a newborn baby narrator that talks.
• look: I thought the magazine in the 1990's looked pretty corny.