Definition of "cornball" []

• One who behaves in a mawkish or unsophisticated manner. (noun)
• Mawkish or unsophisticated; corny: a kid's cornball humor. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "'cornball'-'There's another one of Disney's saccharine things.'"
• "All I twittered, I said, 'cornball' - I wasn't talking about homie at all, "Brown explained."
• "Like the time you teamed up with Texas right wing fanatic John "cornball" Cornyn on a proposal that would eliminate prepaid cell phones and hence protect the nation from the bad guys."