cheesy

1. (informal) Overdramatic, excessively emotional or clichéd, trite, contrived.Examples: "a cheesy song; a cheesy movie"; "The cheesy antics had everyone giggling."; "Another night, when the local entertainers had gone home, Gould went into the empty lounge to play piano with a cheesy string of colored lights overhead and bongo drums at his side."informal

2. (informal) Cheap, of poor quality.Examples: "He would be apprenticed to some cheesy shop or become a clerk in an office and his entire life he would be one of the ordinary poor people, whom he despised and wanted to surpass."; "I tagged along behind this culturally accomplished beast intelligence in my scuffed handmedown shoes, unpressed illfitting post adolescent suit, dirt ringed shirt and cheesy tie, hair askew and book underarm, perspiring perhaps."; "I noticed […] that when a very cheesy synthesized violin sound plays in counterpoint with a real violin, it can quite convincingly seem as if two violins are playing."informal