How to Use campy in a Sentence

campy

adjective

• 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

Last Updated: 11 Nov 2024