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单词 cheesy
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Definition of cheesy in English:

cheesy

adjectivecheesiest, cheesier ˈtʃiːziˈtʃizi
  • 1Like cheese in taste, smell, or consistency.

    a pungent, cheesy sauce
    Example sentencesExamples
    • I eat them and their cheesy sauce with mounds of blandly comforting brown rice, steamed with a cinnamon stick and a couple of cloves.
    • And the other options are still likely to be fried, roasted, or fried and roasted, and smothered in cheesy or creamy sauce.
    • Creamy, cheesy sauces are code words for calorie-laden belly-bloaters.
    • We dispensed with cutlery for this dish as the delicious cheesy sauce was great for dipping bread into.
    • Our dinner begins with a few nibbles: chips with olive and citric acid; lemon tempura with liquorice; and the most divine cheesy bread I have ever tasted.
    • I stupidly didn't think to get the stuff to make the cheesy sauce that goes into a lasagne so just filled it with cheese and hoped it would be OK.
    • The ravioli are filled with a blend of soft ricotta and sharp Gorgonzola, in spinach pasta, and they're bathed in a cheesy sauce with blue cheese.
    • It's obviously not healthy, but the creamy, silky, cheesy, garlicky sauce makes it all worth it.
    • There's a cheesy edge here and that faint sour-milk taste, too.
    • The pages were dry and wan, the classic sign of a cheaply made book, and it was rough on the hands, a cheesy smell still lingering some years on.
    • I have to confess that there wasn't any obvious sign of avocado in the seafood bake, but a firm, cheesy sauce and a huge array of seafood made for an incredibly satisfying starter.
    • The cheddar mash had no overtly cheesy taste but was rich and creamy and the dish was served with a thick onion gravy, dotted with baby onions.
    • She always put yummy things in there that tasted cheesy or creamy or meaty.
    • My guest was a veggie, who sometimes wishes she wasn't, so she went for the mushrooms in a cheesy, garlicky sauce.
    • The sad fact is that when it is two-pairs-of-socks weather, the body demands shepherd's pie with cheesy mash, sticky toffee pudding and two cups of strong coffee in a loud, insistent voice.
    • In a bowl, mix together the eggs, milk, cream and some pepper and cheese (add one or two tablespoonfuls, depending on whether you want a pronounced cheesy flavour or not).
    • The sauce, cheesy and creamy, had just the faintest tang of peppery spiciness to it.
    • It can give a rich, cheesy taste to an otherwise dull vegetarian soup.
  • 2informal Cheap and of low quality.

    cheesy motel rooms
    Example sentencesExamples
    • At the very least, they limit what you're able to accomplish by offering cheap looking templates and cheesy stock photos.
    • The story manages to rise above some of its cheap and cheesy production techniques to reach its redemptive twist of an ending.
    • I do not want Cordelia getting emotional reassurance from a cheesy, cheap, plastic phone.
    • But then he talks her into going to a cheesy German hotel room by saying something in German.
    • However, there's no reason that everything has to look so cheap and cheesy.
    • This isn't a big budget Hollywood film and as such doesn't try to reach for cheesy CGI effects or cheap scares.
    • I've seen people invest hundreds of dollars on a state-of-the-art graphics board, and then connect a cheap and cheesy monitor to their system.
    • I'm leaving for Tampa tomorrow to hang out with Florida friends and see the Pixies and ride roller coasters and stay at a cheesy hotel.
    • And that's not to mention the even more lucrative video market - the natural home for such cheap, and unashamedly cheesy, comedies.
    • He sent a car to pick me up at the cheesy motel.
    1. 2.1 Hackneyed and obviously sentimental.
      an album of cheesy pop hits
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The music we were playing was aspirational, not kiddie pop, not cheesy Euro-dance, but based more on street culture.
      • This is cheesy, containing every cliche that we can imagine from 1970s Country.
      • And it may sound cheesy or corny, but I really remember the movies that I went to see with my whole family.
      • Ask yourself rather why so many cheesy musicals are big hits now.
      • They tend to look cheesy and have corny plots that slink toward clichéd payoffs.
      • I could go on, getting cheesy and sentimental and philosophical about the blog.
      • Is a good film, although as predictable and cheesy as expected.
      • That sounds really cheesy and corny, but it's the truth.
      • There are no cheesy anecdotes or schmaltzy tributes to the place in which he is playing.
      • Especially if I'm in a cheesy, sentimental, highly hormonal kind of mood.
      • It's just so cheesy, corny, and clichéd you can't help but like the good old-fashioned story of the underdog overcoming the odds.
      • There are some beautiful moments which are unfortunately much too short, and some cheesy moments stretched by cliché conversation and intrusive music.
      • It's admittedly cheesy and sentimental but it's important to me because it represented a big emotional closure for me.
      • The eclectic set dressings and costumes call to mind a hodgepodge of charmingly cheesy pop moments.
      • I've started a post for this thread two or three times, and what I've written always looks trite, cheesy or embarrassing.
      • ‘I know it sounds cliche and cheesy, but I really believe that if it's meant to be, it's meant to be,’ she said.
      • Naturally, mainstream dance culture has responded by going mad for euro trance and cheesy pop dance because, hey, it's fun.
      • If you can overlook the corny moments and cheesy dialogue, then this has atmosphere and energy to spare.
      • I remember thinking it was cute and cheesy, just like a theme park.
      • However, once he'd played all the tracks on the list he launched into a mixture of cheesy pop and music from the 1980's.
      Synonyms
      banal, trite, hackneyed, commonplace, clichéd, predictable, stereotyped, platitudinous, inane, fatuous, vapid, jejune, weak, feeble, tired, stale, overworked, overused, well worn
    2. 2.2 (of a smile) exaggerated and likely to be insincere.
      a cheesy grin
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Gone are the inane card tricks, the cheesy smiles and the frilly assistants.
      • She gave me a thumbs-up sign and a cheesy smile, effectively causing me to laugh.
      • She gave a cheesy smile and started flirting shamelessly.
      • He shot her a cheesy smile and then quickly glanced in the rear-view mirror.
      • Looking closer at the photographs he saw a picture of himself smiling one of those cheesy grins he always put on for photos.
      • She had a cheesy smile on her face as she walked towards the three girls.
      • Perhaps it's just the cheesy smile on the participants' faces as they surface which gets to me!
      • Caroline tried to lighten the tense situation with a cheesy smile.
      • He looked about as surprised as I was but then he gave me this really cheesy smile and I broke out laughing.
      • Tony's blue eyes lit up and he smiled a big cheesy smile.
      • ‘You'll be thanking me later,’ Lisa chipped in grinning a cheesy smile.
      • I hated people with big cheesy smiles - it was so annoying.
      • I had a cheesy smile scrawled on my face and I felt all warm and fuzzy inside.
      • He looked up at her and smiled a cheesy smile, making Emily uneasy.
      • They both nod with these ridiculously cheesy smiles.
      • It features a picture of her with a cheesy smile and a low-cut dress.
      • Miguel smiled widely, she called it a cheesy grin at times, but he smiled.
      • ‘You can be taught by the master… free of charge,’ he said sarcastically with a cheesy game show smile.
      • Apparently he must have seen the cheesy smile on my face since he was just in front of me.
      • The whiter-than-white Hollywood smile is now considered cheesy.

Derivatives

  • cheesily

  • adverb
    • He flexed his arm muscles and grinned cheesily.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • But the overall album is either cheesily overproduced or simply too lo-fi.
      • The action scenes were cheesily done, preposterous, and stuck together in a stilted fashion.
      • "Well the best of luck to both of you," she said, smiling cheesily.
  • cheesiness

  • noun
    • There's something about their exuberant cheesiness that, quite frankly, disgusts me.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Maybe a bit of cheesiness is a small price to pay to remind us of how lucky we really are.
      • I'd rather see her with someone who appreciates her goofiness and cheesiness than someone who finds it annoying and wants to change her.
      • Their cheesiness seems insincere and we wonder if they use the same lines on all the girls.
      • I had to laugh inwardly at my own dramatic cheesiness.

Rhymes

breezy, easy, easy-peasy, Kesey, Parcheesi, queasy, sleazy, wheezy, Zambezi
 
 

Definition of cheesy in US English:

cheesy

adjectiveˈCHēzēˈtʃizi
  • 1Like cheese in taste, smell, or consistency.

    a pungent, cheesy sauce
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The sauce, cheesy and creamy, had just the faintest tang of peppery spiciness to it.
    • I eat them and their cheesy sauce with mounds of blandly comforting brown rice, steamed with a cinnamon stick and a couple of cloves.
    • I have to confess that there wasn't any obvious sign of avocado in the seafood bake, but a firm, cheesy sauce and a huge array of seafood made for an incredibly satisfying starter.
    • It can give a rich, cheesy taste to an otherwise dull vegetarian soup.
    • The pages were dry and wan, the classic sign of a cheaply made book, and it was rough on the hands, a cheesy smell still lingering some years on.
    • She always put yummy things in there that tasted cheesy or creamy or meaty.
    • In a bowl, mix together the eggs, milk, cream and some pepper and cheese (add one or two tablespoonfuls, depending on whether you want a pronounced cheesy flavour or not).
    • It's obviously not healthy, but the creamy, silky, cheesy, garlicky sauce makes it all worth it.
    • Creamy, cheesy sauces are code words for calorie-laden belly-bloaters.
    • We dispensed with cutlery for this dish as the delicious cheesy sauce was great for dipping bread into.
    • The sad fact is that when it is two-pairs-of-socks weather, the body demands shepherd's pie with cheesy mash, sticky toffee pudding and two cups of strong coffee in a loud, insistent voice.
    • My guest was a veggie, who sometimes wishes she wasn't, so she went for the mushrooms in a cheesy, garlicky sauce.
    • And the other options are still likely to be fried, roasted, or fried and roasted, and smothered in cheesy or creamy sauce.
    • Our dinner begins with a few nibbles: chips with olive and citric acid; lemon tempura with liquorice; and the most divine cheesy bread I have ever tasted.
    • There's a cheesy edge here and that faint sour-milk taste, too.
    • The ravioli are filled with a blend of soft ricotta and sharp Gorgonzola, in spinach pasta, and they're bathed in a cheesy sauce with blue cheese.
    • I stupidly didn't think to get the stuff to make the cheesy sauce that goes into a lasagne so just filled it with cheese and hoped it would be OK.
    • The cheddar mash had no overtly cheesy taste but was rich and creamy and the dish was served with a thick onion gravy, dotted with baby onions.
  • 2informal Cheap, unpleasant, or blatantly inauthentic.

    cheesy motel rooms
    a big cheesy grin
    Example sentencesExamples
    • He sent a car to pick me up at the cheesy motel.
    • I'm leaving for Tampa tomorrow to hang out with Florida friends and see the Pixies and ride roller coasters and stay at a cheesy hotel.
    • I've seen people invest hundreds of dollars on a state-of-the-art graphics board, and then connect a cheap and cheesy monitor to their system.
    • The story manages to rise above some of its cheap and cheesy production techniques to reach its redemptive twist of an ending.
    • But then he talks her into going to a cheesy German hotel room by saying something in German.
    • At the very least, they limit what you're able to accomplish by offering cheap looking templates and cheesy stock photos.
    • And that's not to mention the even more lucrative video market - the natural home for such cheap, and unashamedly cheesy, comedies.
    • I do not want Cordelia getting emotional reassurance from a cheesy, cheap, plastic phone.
    • However, there's no reason that everything has to look so cheap and cheesy.
    • This isn't a big budget Hollywood film and as such doesn't try to reach for cheesy CGI effects or cheap scares.
 
 
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