campy
adjective
of, relating to, or characterized by theatrical or extravagant style, expressing playful irreverence or knowing amusement.
campily
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a word derived from
campy.
Example Sentences
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These days, Stalter, who is nominated for supporting actress in a comedy, is making her Broadway debut as the campily reimagined Mary Todd Lincoln in Cole Escola’s “Oh, Mary!”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
I’m not the only one who has kept the campily delightful show in the back of his mind: It’s firmly lodged in our cultural semiconscious.
From New York Times ● May 16, 2018
Barbarella is too pure and virtuous to be true, like that other campily incorruptible 60s do-gooder, the Adam West Batman.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 5, 2016
Precisely because it is campily “bad,” the franchise has had license to create and commit to some incredibly important fantasies.
From Salon ● Nov. 3, 2015
Because like the titular Prague in which he sets his tale—a campily doom-shrouded city perched, we are told, at the thin threshold separating capital-G Good from capitals-U-and-E Unspeakable Evil—Magnus Flyte doesn’t exist.
From Slate ● Nov. 30, 2012
