campiness
- a word derived from campy.
Example Sentences
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Throughout, we’ll be tasked with minor actions — mining moon rocks in VR, for instance — and the actors will lead, guide and offer moon tidbits, all with a bit of improv-inspired campiness.
From Los Angeles Times • May 8, 2025
Looking back as an adult, it was the extreme campiness of his character that appealed.
From Salon • Nov. 27, 2022
But rather than milk this boozy matron part for campiness, Heller leans on the unexpected warmth of 11th-hour momliness.
From New York Times • Dec. 4, 2020
The psychological melodrama with feuding stars Bette Davis and Joan Crawford became legendary for its campiness.
From Slate • Mar. 22, 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
