campy
Example Sentences
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"I love Doctor Who, but Torchwood was something else. It was quirky, it was campy, it was just a lot of fun," she said.
From BBC • Mar. 4, 2026
I didn’t think the adulterous villain from the OG “Vanderpump Rules” was long for Alan Cumming’s campy Scottish castle because everyone remembers “Scandoval” and what he did to Ariana Madix, but I was wrong.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 23, 2025
When Mr. Cameron’s Na’vi growl and bare their teeth at one another, they come across as campy and catty critters—“Real Housewives of Pandora.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 17, 2025
It’s campy, it’s cheesy, it’s way more fun than you expect it to be, but there’s a knowingness to the whole endeavor.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 14, 2025
It did not help that to pass the time Joe plucked incessantly at a ukulele, singing and whistling the campy tunes that he and his father enjoyed so much.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
