corninessn.
/ˈkɔːnɪnɪs/ colloquial.
The condition or quality of being ‘corny’ (see corny adj.1 1c).
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the mind > attention and judgement > bad taste > lack of refinement > [noun] > vulgarity
community1600
vulgarness1642
vulgar1655
vulgarism1749
vulgaritya1774
tigerism1836
plebeianness1840
shopkeeperism1843
vulgarianism1920
corniness1932
kitschiness1971
1932 Melody Maker Feb. 155/3 It is not on any grounds of technique, taste or ‘corniness’ that I make this criticism.
1934 Melody Maker 19 May 9/3 The jazzy, double-stopping style is, to my mind, the last word in corniness.
1941 Time (Air Express ed.) 19 May 27/3 Corny as a back-country bumpkin, Oakie has turned his corniness into a salable commodity.
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n.1932- in articulo mortis
- in as mickle
- in as mickle as
- in astyle
- in at door
- in at doors
- in at elbows
- in at one ear and out also at the other
- in at one ear and out of the other
- in at one ear and out the other
- in at the kill
- in at the wane of the moon
- in at the window
- in at, by, on, through, to, under
- in attendance
- in audience
- in authority
- in await
- in aye
- in azimuth
- in back
- in back of
- in backhouse ditch
- in bad
- in bad bread