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"corny" is also used as a crossword clue. If that's what you saw, the answer is often hokey (5 letters).
Definitions
dull and tiresome but with pretensions of significance or originality
Word origin
From Middle English corny, equivalent to corn (“a type of cereal or grain”) + -y. Piecewise doublet of grainy. In the "hackneyed" sense, from "corn catalogue jokes", reputedly low-quality jokes that were formerly printed in mail-order seed catalogues.
Used in a sentence
“The duct tape and wire was a pretty corny solution.”
“The movie was okay, but the love scene was really corny.”
“He sent a bouquet of twelve red roses and a card: "Roses are red, Violets are blue, Sugar is sweet, So are you." How corny is that?”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Clichéd and sentimental”5 letters
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