" cheesy "

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1: Things done or said to someone which may make someone feel special or loved while others who see or hear these would be like: "eeww go get a room" Things done or said that would make other parties feel the goosebumps

  * e.g.,  ... John: You are the love of my dear life 

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1: This is an important word and nobody has it right yet. What it means is: Trying too hard, unsubtle, and inauthentic.

  * e.g.,  ... Cheesiness is subjective. What seems cheesy to me, may be a legitimate and attractive hairstyle to you. What seems cheesy to me, may cause you to weep and hug your girlfriend tight. 

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2: Specifically that which is unsubtle or inauthentic in its way of trying to elicit a certain response from a viewer, listener, audience, etc. Celine Dion is cheesy because her lyrics, timbre, key changes, and swelling orchestral accompaniment telegraph 'i want you to be moved' instead of moving you. Gold chains on an exposed hairy chest are cheesy because they shout out: "I have money and I am manly" instead of impressing a woman in a more subtle way, or allowing a woman to form her own judgments. The excessive showing off suggests he's compensating for what he does not have--i.e., he's actually poor, insecure, or short with an inferiority complex. Cliches are often cheesy because they are an obvious and artless way of making a point. A movie might be cheesy if it contains 'on the nose' dialogue, like "I can't live without you" or "You had me at hello."

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1: sentimental, maudlin, melodramatic, corny

  * e.g.,  ... That Celine Dion song is so cheesy. 

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1: an adjective to describe cheese

  * e.g.,  ... cheddar is cheesy 

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1: Low quality, cheap, inauthentic, crappy; fake. From cheese cloth, the thin cheap fabric used to drain cheese curd, and in the past sometimes used instead for proper cloth in cheap clothing.

  * e.g.,  ... (While feeling the fabric of a shirt on the rack) "This one feels a little cheesy." Hence any low-grade or fake product, tangible or not, offered to the public. 

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1:  Something that is unintentionally kitschy, tacky, or of poor quality, but these flaws go unnoticed by the admirers of said thing.

  * e.g.,  ...  I can't believe you like Ashlee Simpson. Her music is so cheesy. 

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2:  Something that was popular at some point in the past, but that now seems lame in retrospect.

  * e.g.,  ...  Hey, look at this picture of dad from 1975! Check out those sideburns and bellbottoms! That's so cheesy! 

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1: 1) Any form of entertainment (music, movies) or aesthetic (hair style, photo pose) that the status quo has deemed fully open to ridicule, usually with no explanation. More specifically, the status quo here being that of Generation X. "tacky" and "dated" are closely related words, but far from being exact synonyms.

  * e.g.,  ... "Family Ties? That show was so cheesy!"  

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2: 2) Anything the speaker doesn't like, which makes it an immensely vague adjective

  * e.g.,  ... "Ha ha ha...Cameron just bought these used hair metal CDs he found in the store. The CDs are so cheesy! In fact, we hated them so much, that we kept listening to them last night and singing along until 4 in the morning." 

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3: 3) A term embraced by young self-proclaimed non-conformists, to hypocritically distinguish what they've been taught to dislike from what they've been taught to like

 [ "cheesy" ]

1: Something that is Cliché or overdone. Examples are livestrong bands, crank dat soulja boy, or outdated slang.

  * e.g.,  ... Cheesy Person: Hey Wazzup dawg!!??!? we in this shizzle 

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1: (adj) stupid, or of low quality

  * e.g.,  ... That book is really cheesy 

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2: see corny

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1: In Urdu (south asian language) .....it refers to a beautiful girl which on first look, "you would definitely like to fuck". 'Cheesy' is read with a "C" voice instead of "S", like: chee--see

  * e.g.,  ... First Boy: Kiya tum nay wo larki dekhi (did you saw that girl)?