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campy
adjective as in absurd
adjective as in affected
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adjective as in amusing
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adjective as in droll
adjective as in farcical
adjective as in humorous
adjective as in jocular
adjective as in la-di-da
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- apish
- artificial
- assumed
- awkward
- chichi
- conceited
- contrived
- counterfeit
- counterfeited
- faked
- false
- feigned
- fraud
- gone Hollywood
- ham
- hammy
- highfalutin
- hollow
- imitated
- insincere
- mannered
- melodramatic
- ostentatious
- overdone
- pedantic
- phony
- playacting
- pompous
- precious
- pretended
- pretentious
- put on
- schmaltzy
- self-conscious
- shallow
- sham
- simulated
- spurious
- stiff
- stilted
- studied
- superficial
- theatrical
- unnatural
adjective as in laughable
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adjective as in laughing
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adjective as in mannered
adjective as in theatrical
adjective as in witty
Example Sentences
The star and executive producer of Max's beautifully honest and critically-acclaimed show "Somebody Somewhere," which winds down after three seasons this Sunday, first gained attention for her fearlessly campy cabaret act.
“They don’t have powers, they make all their own costumes, and it’s fabulous and can be campy and can be humorous but then is also gut-wrenching.”
That’s no doubt because their contributions to this equally campy and earnest musical signal a truly collaborative endeavor.
The desert setting and chomping alien monsters give “The Last Dance” a whiff of “Starship Troopers,” a soupçon of “Tremors,” nodding to those self-consciously campy B-movie creature features of yore.
The over-the-top events artfully channel the killer bee hysteria of the 1990s as well as the campy made-for-TV sci-fi disaster movies of yore, making “Bee-nado” both a bit bonkers and strangely comforting.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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