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as in foppish
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as in jokey
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Recent Examples of campy
Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii Platforms: PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S
Release Date: February 20, 2025
Play as ex-yakuza Goro Majima in this amazingly campy action-adventure title.
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Gabriel Zamora, PCMAG, 22 Jan. 2025
He's been portrayed as a ruthless businessman, an evil scientist, and a vain politician, while actors have played the supervillain with differing strains of campy flash and genuine menace.
—Randall Colburn, EW.com, 12 Apr. 2025
Snow sings about getting her princess groove back, butts heads with her Evil Queen stepmother (a campy Gal Gadot) and gets a little help from her short new friends.
—Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 22 Mar. 2025
Its special effects budget might have been little more than peanuts and later episodes veered into campy silliness but nevertheless, the series had a devoted family following in its three-season, 83-episode existence from 1965-1968 and a healthy revival in syndication.
—Jeff Spry, Space.com, 11 Mar. 2025
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Gabriel Zamora, PCMAG, 22 Jan. 2025
He's been portrayed as a ruthless businessman, an evil scientist, and a vain politician, while actors have played the supervillain with differing strains of campy flash and genuine menace.
—Randall Colburn, EW.com, 12 Apr. 2025
Snow sings about getting her princess groove back, butts heads with her Evil Queen stepmother (a campy Gal Gadot) and gets a little help from her short new friends.
—Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 22 Mar. 2025
Its special effects budget might have been little more than peanuts and later episodes veered into campy silliness but nevertheless, the series had a devoted family following in its three-season, 83-episode existence from 1965-1968 and a healthy revival in syndication.
—Jeff Spry, Space.com, 11 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for campy
Adjective
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Her husband, the filmmaker, wears a foppish silk scarf.—
Jesse Green,
New York Times,
19 Mar. 2025
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And then that version of Nosferatu fell apart, and Bill was cast in The Northman as this sort of foppish cousin of Alexander Skarsgård.—
Matt Zoller Seitz,
Vulture,
14 Jan. 2025
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It’s packed with curling memorabilia and jokey artifacts: pin badges, curling stone statues, a Worst End trophy (complete with protruding horse’s butt), strategy whiteboards, and a sign revealing the Scottish Curler’s Grace.—
Tim Chester,
AFAR Media,
16 Apr. 2025
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Disposable, anonymous, soulless, jokey slaughter.—
Michael Phillips,
Chicago Tribune,
13 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Johansson brings a playful, global sensibility to Greenlandic staples—using local ingredients like capelin and ptarmigan in ways that draw from both Asian and Mediterranean influences.—
Jordi Lippe-McGraw,
Forbes.com,
24 Apr. 2025
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Once she’s done blending, her full glam results are stunning yet intriguing, with a playful feminine hue.—
Celeste Polanco,
Essence,
24 Apr. 2025
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This has reflected neither sappy altruism nor cynical neoimperialism but an understanding that in the modern world, economics and security need to be handled at something beyond the national level.—
Gideon Rose,
Foreign Affairs,
8 Mar. 2025
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Into a routine casting call one afternoon walks Michael, an Ohio ice-cream truck driver effusing sappy memories of watching the series every morning with his family over bacon and eggs.—
Angie Han,
The Hollywood Reporter,
3 Sep. 2019
Adjective
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For fans of marmalade sandwiches and whimsical bear adventures, this Notting Hill property may feel oddly familiar—and for good reason.—
Abby Montanez,
Robb Report,
22 Apr. 2025
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Anthropologie Somerset maxi: $168 (Anthropologie) Anthropologie’s Somerset maxi dress offers a romantic vibe—with flutter sleeves, a tiered skirt and several whimsical prints, this dress is ideal for garden weddings or rustic ceremonies.—
Jené Luciani Sena,
FOXNews.com,
21 Apr. 2025
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Put all those elements together, and the show remained fun and witty and insightful despite all of its darkness because viewers never got attached to any one character.—
Judy Berman,
Time,
24 Apr. 2025
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Deborah botches the presser that follows by refusing to respond to ageist, sexist questions with witty banter — a totally foreseeable scenario that Ava anticipated and prepared for, but Deborah tossed Ava’s jokes in the trash.—
Jessica M. Goldstein,
Vulture,
11 Apr. 2025
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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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Could all this jocular, misogynistic vulgarity influence anybody?—
Helen Shaw,
New Yorker,
4 Apr. 2025
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For years, Marvel films worked this jocular-fantastic angle, in pointed contrast to the grimdark expectorations of their DC counterparts, who were drowning in a morass of runaway budgets and brooding slo-mo.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
14 Mar. 2025
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“Campy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/campy. Accessed 5 May. 2025.
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