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Recent Examples of campy
The custom shearling bag channeled a campy edge and of course, sportswear, reimagining the size of the racquet with exaggerated proportions and adding a playful pop of color and texture to the otherwise all-white outfit.
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Tiana Randall, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025
Obsessing over those cats is a campy Kristen Wiig, while Laila Lockhart Kraner returns from the series as Gabby and Gloria Estefan plays her grandmother.
—Jack Smart, People.com, 31 Aug. 2025
New Shows All's Fair (Hulu) Date TBA High gloss, campy drama?
—Lucy Ford, Time, 28 Aug. 2025
Set four years before Danny Zucko (John Travolta) and the T-Birds ruled Rydell High, the campy prequel takes viewers back to 1954 to chronicle the origin story of the school's titular girl gang and its trailblazing founders.
—James Mercadante, EW.com, 22 Aug. 2025
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Tiana Randall, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025
Obsessing over those cats is a campy Kristen Wiig, while Laila Lockhart Kraner returns from the series as Gabby and Gloria Estefan plays her grandmother.
—Jack Smart, People.com, 31 Aug. 2025
New Shows All's Fair (Hulu) Date TBA High gloss, campy drama?
—Lucy Ford, Time, 28 Aug. 2025
Set four years before Danny Zucko (John Travolta) and the T-Birds ruled Rydell High, the campy prequel takes viewers back to 1954 to chronicle the origin story of the school's titular girl gang and its trailblazing founders.
—James Mercadante, EW.com, 22 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for campy
Adjective
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The owner, clad in a foppish costume, is throwing a fancy party filled with people who don’t feel obliged to follow the evacuation orders of some paramilitary stooge.—
Noel Murray,
Vulture,
13 Aug. 2025
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Her husband, the filmmaker, wears a foppish silk scarf.—
Jesse Green,
New York Times,
19 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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There is nothing funny about the film’s jokey title, which is just a strained metaphor.—
Caryn James,
HollywoodReporter,
31 Aug. 2025
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Despite more complicated challenges, the cast are as jokey and jovial as ever.—
Sabrina Weiss,
People.com,
21 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Like sparkling citrus that feels like late-summer light, warm vanilla and orchard tones for autumn’s cozy neutrals, and playful gourmand notes that give glossy, indulgent energy.—
Allure Editors,
Allure,
10 Sep. 2025
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Known for vibrant color, upcycled materials, and a playful yet political spirit, his work captures the joy and resilience of migration stories.—
Karissa Mitchell,
Essence,
10 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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The absence of corruption, scandal, self-dealing and cronyism makes this a revitalizing break from real-world concerns, without in any way veering into sappy idealism.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
27 Aug. 2025
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With a pair of catwalks jutting from the oval stage, the guys roam into the crowd, all while hitting their dance moves, and blending their upbeat pop anthems with the sappier ballads that made them into a heartthrob collective.—
Anna Kaufman,
USA Today,
13 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Johnson Hartig, the brand's CEO and Creative Director, whose whimsical graphics, collage-effect embellishments, and historical references are core to the brand ethos, also met the moment in today's fraught political and cultural environment with his show.—
Roxanne Robinson,
Forbes.com,
11 Sep. 2025
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Cardi's body art is significantly brighter and more colorful thanks to Schene's additional touch-ups to her decade-old tattoo, which included a whimsical hot pink butterfly, several new peacock feathers and flowers, among other eccentric details.—
Skyler Caruso,
PEOPLE,
11 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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For the magazine’s seventy-fifth anniversary, in 2000, the dog-loving portraitist William Wegman dressed up one of his Weimaraners as Eustace Tilley, our dandyish mascot, originally drawn by Rea Irvin.—
The New Yorker,
New Yorker,
15 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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His witty, sarcastic, and often controversial commentary is the soundtrack to a generation of wrestling fans.—
Andrew Ravens,
MSNBC Newsweek,
11 Sep. 2025
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Bazooka Joe invited 12 star athletes for a new collaboration, which combines the original theme of Joe delivering witty jokes with an informative component involving each sport.—
Shane Young,
Forbes.com,
8 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Albee's 1962 play won a Tony Award, and would have also won a Pulitzer Prize for drama, if the prissy trustees of Columbia University hadn't overruled the jury.—
Jim Higgins,
Journal Sentinel,
24 Jan. 2023
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Some of that’s changing times, some of that is because a not-insignificant portion of W.A.S.P. fans are prissy suburbanites themselves.—
Andy O'Connor,
SPIN,
13 Jan. 2023
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“Campy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/campy. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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