campy
adjective
of, relating to, or characterized by theatrical or extravagant style, expressing playful irreverence or knowing amusement.
campiness
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a word derived from
campy.
Example Sentences
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But my attention has always fallen on the pageantry of it all, the campiness, the fashion.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 2023
Looking back as an adult, it was the extreme campiness of his character that appealed.
From Salon ● Nov. 27, 2022
It is knowing and camp, and knowing about its campiness, meshing the testing-the-format provocations of the late-1980s video era with the big-budget pop-machine clips of the early 2000s.
From New York Times ● Mar. 30, 2021
In this case, the two reexamined how the blatant campiness of Starship Troopers is what actually makes it great, and how its political and cultural themes were really quite clever and forward-looking for its time.
From Slate ● Nov. 25, 2020
Sheen is the only performer who embraces the inherent campiness of the story, and he alone makes his character’s motives at least somewhat understandable.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 14, 2020
