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
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
“He was indeed very French,” says Curry, campily.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2025
“Uniquely fun and campily gory,” as our reviewer, Amy Silverberg, put it, this novel is “a gruesome love letter to rich food and rich men, and to gorging on both with abandon.”
From New York Times ● Dec. 3, 2021
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
On screen he is prone to the smoulder; up close he beams unselfconsciously, campily tactile, eager to connect, recalling stories in dialogue form, rather than precis.
From The Guardian ● May 23, 2013
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
