Meaning & use

cheesy

adjective·Everyday

Tasting or smelling like cheese, or, informally, cheap, sentimental, and lacking in genuine quality or originality.

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The pizza was topped with an extra layer of gooey, cheesy mozzarella.

The movie's cheesy dialogue made the whole audience laugh at the wrong moments.

A note on using this word

Cheesy has two senses: describing actual cheese flavor, and informally criticizing something as overly sentimental, cheap, or unoriginal.

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