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Synonyms & Antonyms of hammy
- a hammy singer whose overwrought renditions of love songs just beg listeners to cry
Synonyms for hammy
- dramatic,
- histrionic,
- melodramatic,
- stagy
- (or stagey),
- theatrical
- (also theatric)
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“Hammy.” The Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster Inc., https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hammy. Accessed 14 December 2019.
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The first known use of hammy was in 1929
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