Example Sentences

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Maybe all you want is to watch My Friend Dahmer and thank your lucky stars that it’s not Harry Styles hammily slouch-limping across the screen.

From The Verge • Oct. 26, 2017

I started hammily acting again, exactly as I had done the first time.

From Washington Post • Aug. 5, 2016

Vieira looks at him as if he’s the biggest dork he’s ever encountered: “No! Argentina, of course!” he says with an extreme “like duh” expression on his face and hammily rolls his eyes at me.

From The Guardian • Jun. 23, 2014

But it plays as an arch, hammily acted farce that demonstrates the incompatibility of old-fashioned stage acting with modern film technique.

From New York Times • May 2, 2013

He had also some blocks of gigantic hams most hammily pictured, which might also be of use, and he would also be able to bring in a number of his fellow tradesmen.

From The Romance of Zion Chapel [3d ed.] by Le Gallienne, Richard