as in rustical
tiresomely obvious and unsophisticated the musical's corn-fed humor harkens back to a more innocent, unjaded era

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Recent Examples of corn-fed Never underestimate a corn-fed basic from Hockeytown. Meredith Blake, Los Angeles Times, 29 May 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for corn-fed
Adjective
  • This approach gives a more rustic feel to their menu, one that fully works with their business model of local, homegrown, and rustic foods.
    Dominick Williams, Kansas City Star, 27 Feb. 2025
  • Where Japanese interiors are sleek, Scandinavian ones are rustic.
    Elise Taylor, Vogue, 26 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • There’s a fair share of cornball dialogue in Cornelius Uliano and Bryan Schulz’s screenplay, as well as an excess of reassuring schmaltz at the fadeout.
    Dennis Harvey, Variety, 3 Oct. 2024
  • Another scream for this bad, unabashedly cornball line.
    Evan Minsker, Rolling Stone, 5 Sep. 2024
Adjective
  • The Six Triple Eight, however, is 128 minutes of hokey dialogue, two-dimensional characterizations, and Susan Sarandon as Eleanor Roosevelt wearing false teeth straight out of a Party City going-out-of-business sale.
    Joe Reid, Vulture, 28 Feb. 2025
  • Hart despises him and his blundering height, despises the hokey sentimentality of Oklahoma!
    Stephanie Bunbury, Deadline, 18 Feb. 2025

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“Corn-fed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/corn-fed. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.

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