| Lame |
| Trite |
| Banal |
| Hokey |
| Square |
| Mawkish |
| Clichéd |
| Unoriginal |
| Hackneyed. |
| Joke style |
| Not original |
| Like groaners |
| Trite: Slang. |
| Platitudinous |
| Cliche-ridden |
| Like dad jokes |
| Like many puns |
| Trite or banal |
| Lame, as a joke |
| Like some jokes |
| Trite, as jokes |
| Hokey, as a joke |
| Like some oaters |
| Like trite humor |
| Full of clichés |
| Like many a joke |
| Trite, as a joke |
| Trite, joke-wise |
| Like this puzzle? |
| Like a trite joke |
| Like a stale joke |
| Like groaner humor |
| Like some groaners |
| Like terrible puns |
| Like many bar jokes |
| Not very innovative |
| Tiresomely unsubtle |
| Word for some jokes |
| Like some bad jokes |
| Hardly scintillating |
| Hardly sophisticated |
| Like grandpa's jokes |
| Like most "dad jokes |
| Not subtle, as humor |
| Like "Hee Haw" humor |
| Like some awful jokes |
| Like some sorry jokes |
| Sentimentally mawkish |
| Old-fashioned: Slang. |
| Groan-inducing, maybe |
| Mawkishly sentimental |
| Groanworthy, as a joke |
| Like a cheesy old joke |
| Vaudevillian, in a way |
| Like Kansas in August? |
| Groan-inducing, perhaps |
| Old-fashioned, as humor |
| Like most "Hee Haw" jokes |
| Old-fashioned informally |
| Unsophisticated, as humor |
| Like a Kansan's trite joke? |
| Like many vaudeville comics |
| Like many knock-knock jokes |
| Like jokes that elicit groans |
| Like grandpa's jokes, probably |
| Like the pun "you're a-maize-ing |
| Like the joke about the Iowa farmer? |