OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 19665

hokum

/ˈhəʊkəm/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
cursilada • cursilería
(An instance of) excessively contrived, hackneyed, or sentimental material in a film, television programme, theater production, etc.
Every experienced playwright, every manager, every stage director, every intelligent actor who has passed his novitiate, knows of things that always have received a certain definit…
The majority of the twenty-six stunts described in this volume belong to a species of so-called hokum acts derived from the professional stage and handed down through several gener…
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