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Recent Examples of campy
While the obvious draw to the film is campy, gory coyote action, the couple is effusive about each other’s ability to pull off heavier moments during the family’s arc.
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William Earl, Variety, 22 Sep. 2025
Glee is aggressively rewatchable — a series that is somehow poignant, brilliantly campy, and hilarious while also being so dated that it should never be made again.
—Catherine Mhloyi, Them., 15 Sep. 2025
Revenge, a campy horror sequel to the 1976 film Grizzly.
—Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 11 Sep. 2025
Reviewers laud the murder-mystery’s Gothic elements, contrasting the Netflix movie’s more somber tone with Glass Onion‘s distinctly campy vibe.
—Natalie Oganesyan, Deadline, 6 Sep. 2025
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William Earl, Variety, 22 Sep. 2025
Glee is aggressively rewatchable — a series that is somehow poignant, brilliantly campy, and hilarious while also being so dated that it should never be made again.
—Catherine Mhloyi, Them., 15 Sep. 2025
Revenge, a campy horror sequel to the 1976 film Grizzly.
—Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 11 Sep. 2025
Reviewers laud the murder-mystery’s Gothic elements, contrasting the Netflix movie’s more somber tone with Glass Onion‘s distinctly campy vibe.
—Natalie Oganesyan, Deadline, 6 Sep. 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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Sweeney and Dickson have been experimenting with more playful sartorial risks in the few months too; sailor chic via Coperni, subversive corporate attire with a pantsless suit and tie combo via Jean Paul Gaultier, and silky power suiting by Oscar de la Renta.—
Anna Cafolla,
Vogue,
1 Oct. 2025
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January’s energy is heightening your creative side and invites a playful, loving energy into your interactions.—
Meghan Rose,
Glamour,
1 Oct. 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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Other stars, such as Kylie Jenner and Paris Hilton, added whimsical twists and early 2000s nods to their front-row beauty at Haider Ackermann’s first presentation for Tom Ford and Isabel Marant’s spring 2026 show, respectively.—
Kaleigh Werner,
Footwear News,
3 Oct. 2025
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Some whimsical examples include the Woolly Worm Festival in North Carolina, the East Texas Yamboree in Texas, and Blairsville Sorghum Festival in Georgia.—
Kaitlyn Yarborough,
Southern Living,
3 Oct. 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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As more viewers saw the video on TikTok, thousands of people shared their own witty responses and comments.—
Alice Gibbs,
MSNBC Newsweek,
3 Oct. 2025
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Alice Babette Toklas, the ideal reader who became Stein’s wife, made a name for herself by writing a witty cookbook that included a friend’s recipe for hashish fudge.—
Judith Thurman,
New Yorker,
29 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 8 Oct. 2025.
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