0 A cornball joke, film, story, etc. has no new ideas and is not sincere, or is too often repeated and therefore not funny or interesting:
Wide though his interests were in music, there was a line, never to be crossed, between rich, fine music and over-the-top cornball.
Even sadder is the realization that some of the old cornball movies are still fresher, more alive, than this regurgitation.
The show featured a sequence of brief sketches of cornball humor, combined with performances by top acts in bluegrass, country and western and gospel music.
Twenty years on, the play feels like a period piece cornball, sure, but with a big-heartedness and linguistic vitality that todays emerging writers could learn from.
I thought it was cornball for years.
He also said complete with a sassy disco-diva vocal, cornball lyrics, and cheesy new wave synths and background vocals that quickly establish the duo's obsession with retro kitsch.
