How to Use campy in a Sentence
campy
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At times it was done to comic effect, and today has come to be seen as more than a tad campy.
— John Petkovic, cleveland.com, 12 Jan. 2018 -
All of the industry figured that nobody would ever watch some crazy, campy kid’s show.
— Aaron Couch, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Oct. 2017 -
Poverty, a childhood spent in trailers, and knucklehead friends are all part of the campy atmosphere.
— Kyle Smith, National Review, 11 Jan. 2018 -
Thanks to all the streaming services out there, there are a ton of options to choose from this holiday season, from the classics to campy favorites and recent blockbusters.
— Lynsey Eidell, Glamour, 15 Dec. 2017 -
Overall, the cartoon is transformed into a combination campy circus, rock concert and amusement park.
— Edward Rothstein, WSJ, 6 Dec. 2017 -
The Mirror Universe showed up in several DS9 episodes, which also brought their fair share of campy moments.
— Annalee Newitz, Ars Technica, 9 Jan. 2018 -
Anderson Township Trustee Andrew Pappas is back starring in a campy campaign video spoof.
— Jason Williams, Cincinnati.com, 12 Jan. 2018 -
These characters are cartoonish, campy drag representations of women.
— Katie Walsh, Detroit Free Press, 1 Nov. 2017 -
And what in the name of all things campy was in Lady Gaga's wagon?
— Vogue, 13 May 2019 -
The movie is campy, offbeat, and now available to rent.
— WIRED, 11 Feb. 2023 -
While the singer has had a new haircut, he's added a campy ’80s mustache.
— Christian Allaire, Vogue, 10 Sep. 2019 -
What tumbles forth from this premise is a wild, campy romp.
— The New York Review of Books, 2 Mar. 2019 -
Also: Don’t miss the Whacky Shack, a classic and campy dark ride.
— Susan Glaser, cleveland, 25 June 2020 -
But the real star here is Black, who ups the theatrics to an 11 in a way that is both campy and creepy.
— Jennifer M. Wood, WIRED, 28 June 2019 -
Yup, let that campy gravitas and pain sink in for a minute.
— D. Elizabeth, Teen Vogue, 29 Aug. 2018 -
Truth be told, the movie looks suitably stylish, with Stone having a campy and kinky blast.
— Scott Mendelson, Forbes, 8 Apr. 2021 -
Here, catch up on every single campy look from the 2019 Met Gala.
— Glamour, 6 May 2019 -
The result, then, was Darkman; this movie is weird, twisted, campy, and fun in a lot of ways.
— Evan Romano, Men's Health, 25 May 2022 -
In the short clip, Chalamet is seen riding on the back of a truck, singing to a campy backing track.
— Zoe Haylock, Vulture, 13 Oct. 2021 -
It was criticized for being campy in all the wrong ways and lacking the edge with which the first three films thrived.
— Ryan Parker, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Feb. 2020 -
But all this campy extravagance could not hold off the specter of war.
— Rhonda Garelick, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2023 -
Yet over the years, this campy horror film has become a cult favorite.
— Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping, 30 Sep. 2022 -
Michelle Pfeiffer, Maxwell Caulfield, and more look back on the campy 1982 sequel.
— Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 5 Apr. 2023 -
And so the host pulled a lever that played context-free clips that were campy, confusing, dark, or all three.
— Dan Snierson, EW.com, 24 June 2021 -
To give this palette a modern spin, err on the side of earth tones as opposed to the bright, campy colors of decades past.
— Jessica Bennett, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Aug. 2023 -
The overall effect is a bit campy: Les Trocks within the frame instead of en pointe.
— Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Apr. 2018 -
There are plain ones, cute ones, funny ones, campy ones, ones with dicks printed on them.
— Brian Moylan, Vulture, 19 July 2021 -
This rom-comic ad-movie is campy, but not camp in the strict Sontagian sense.
— Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 14 Dec. 2020 -
But because the world of Beetlejuice includes a campy depiction of the bureaucratic afterlife, Charles isn’t gone from the story.
— Jack Smart, Peoplemag, 6 Sep. 2024 -
That is entirely the point, and the contrast with the luxurious new environment only adds to the campy aspect of the entire production.
— Christian Lewis, Variety, 12 July 2024
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