cornballadjective
uk/ˈkɔːn.bɔːl/us/ˈkɔːrn.bɑːl/USA cornball joke, film, story, etc. has no new ideas and is not sincere, or is too often repeated and therefore not funny or interesting:
the usual cornball romantic comedy
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Tedious and uninspiring
- anonymous
- antiseptic
- banal
- be (as) dull as ditchwater idiom
- bland
- boring
- drab
- earthbound
- flat-footed
- lifeless
- mind-numbing
- monochrome
- monotonous
- mouldy
- mundane
- tedious
- threadbare
- tired
- tiresome
- trite
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