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campy

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5 lettersPronunciation /ˈkæmpi/Part of speech adjectiveSorted acmpyStarts with CEnds with Y0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. providing sophisticated amusement by virtue of having artificially (and vulgarly) mannered or banal or sentimental qualities

Word origin

From camp (“an affected or exaggerated style”) + -y.

Used in a sentence

  • Stu liked to watch campy B-movie horror flicks from the 1950s, not because they scared him, but because he found them funny.
  • Poison Ivy captures the essence of "Batman and Robin," a wild, campy costume party of a movie and the first "Batman" to suggest that somewhere in Gotham City there might be a Studio 54.
  • It no longer worked, culturally or financially, to be either snooty or campy about lowbrow culture; at the same time its mediation of highbrow culture no longer counted for much either.

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