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: --
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.
I thought it was cornball for years.
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.
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.
Even sadder is the realization that some of the old cornball movies are still fresher, more alive, than this regurgitation.
Wide though his interests were in music, there was a line, never to be crossed, between rich, fine music and over-the-top cornball.
