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campy
adjective as in absurd
adjective as in affected
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adjective as in amusing
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adjective as in droll
adjective as in farcical
adjective as in humorous
adjective as in jocular
adjective as in la-di-da
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- apish
- artificial
- assumed
- awkward
- chichi
- conceited
- contrived
- counterfeit
- counterfeited
- faked
- false
- feigned
- fraud
- gone Hollywood
- ham
- hammy
- highfalutin
- hollow
- imitated
- insincere
- mannered
- melodramatic
- ostentatious
- overdone
- pedantic
- phony
- playacting
- pompous
- precious
- pretended
- pretentious
- put on
- schmaltzy
- self-conscious
- shallow
- sham
- simulated
- spurious
- stiff
- stilted
- studied
- superficial
- theatrical
- unnatural
adjective as in laughable
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adjective as in laughing
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adjective as in mannered
adjective as in theatrical
adjective as in witty
Example Sentences
She spent years honing her style and fighting sceptical record labels before her campy, singalong anthems found their intended audience.
“Pirates Wanted” leans campy, a vision of the lifestyle more informed by Disneyland’s Pirates of the Caribbean than any historical fiction.
For all her campy affectations, Samantha was always the most grounded of the characters, able to cut to the heart of things with a witty line, biting comment or just a simple truth.
The finale is ghastly, grisly and even humorous when Madigan gets the chance to play up her character’s eccentricities to their most campy heights.
This dip takes its inspiration from a more baroque, arguably campy, ancestor: the seven-layer.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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