How to Use hammy in a Sentence

hammy

adjective

• He’s way down the list of the league’s hammy actors, but a flop is a flop.
  — Scott Ostler, SFChronicle.com, 7 Jan. 2021
• Once the hammy heals, the future looks bright for the Auburn product.
  — cleveland, 8 Aug. 2021
• Now, as my hammy words hang in the air, a silence stretches out.
  — WIRED, 2 Sep. 2022
• Daniels is morose and whiny and Reynolds is hammy and over-the-top, which allows Stone to steal the movie, giving it its only modicum of zest and soul.
  — Tim Grierson, Vulture, 3 June 2021
• From that point on, Richie settled into a groove of singing one of his many hits and then engaging in hammy patter that felt as canned as Spam.
  — Ross Raihala, Twin Cities, 30 Aug. 2019
• That was an example of the tighter control, the lack of hammy applause lines and the focusing of the message that made the convention a success.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 22 Aug. 2020
• Surely, the Titans wouldn’t risk his sore hammy heading into the playoffs, right?
  — cleveland, 21 Aug. 2020
• Conversely, the hammy what-do-Black-people-do conversations are part of the show’s charm.
  — The New Yorker, 22 Nov. 2021
• But this hammy quality both mirrors and captures the world Spree skewers.
  — Kate Knibbs, Wired, 12 Aug. 2020
• Both bring some life to what could be a hammy parody and rote exercise in nostalgia.
  — Matthew Love, Vulture, 28 Mar. 2021
• Grant, meanwhile, gets to tap once more into the hammy villainy that made Paddington 2 the internet's favorite movie.
  — Christian Holub, EW.com, 29 Mar. 2023
• For his hammy performance, Quaid is rewarded by being drenched in a shower of tiger urine.
  — Nick Schager, Variety, 20 Jan. 2022
• What Cowboy Bebop is, down to its hammy cyberpunk signage and the nails of its cheap-looking sets, is a performance.
  — Cecilia D'anastasio, Wired, 19 Nov. 2021
• Kuntzman, a hammy fifty-seven-year-old with a short beard, whipped out his pen and his phone to record himself coloring it in, using the plate’s embossing as a guide.
  — Dan Greene, The New Yorker, 16 Jan. 2023
• Bill Campbell's Ash is extra hammy as the obnoxious chainsaw-for-a-hand anti-hero battling demons while stuck in King Arthur’s court.
  — Bianca Rodriguez, Marie Claire, 21 Sep. 2020
• Though his jokes could be hammy, Corden made some magical TV moments.
  — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 27 Apr. 2023
• The violence mostly appears off-camera, but there’s a lot of hammy screaming.
  — oregonlive, 18 May 2021
• Cage's reliably hammy take on Drac is the big hook of Renfield—and indeed the best reason, maybe the only one, to see this unsavory cocktail of genres.
  — A.a. Dowd, Chron, 12 Apr. 2023
• Wright’s restlessness can be off-putting, but his technique feels like a reasonable match here for the high-stakes subject matter, and the heightened (but not hammy) pitch of the performances.
  — Gary Thompson, Philly.com, 13 Dec. 2017
• Jones attempted to play through htender hammy but was unable to.
  — Tyler Dragon, The Enquirer, 30 Nov. 2020
• Rhett himself is a fine showman, adept at engaging a crowd without going too hammy.
  — Joey Guerra, Houston Chronicle, 7 Mar. 2018
• But her intentions get lost in some cloudy marine layer in between, sunk by hammy hard-boiled dialogue and a story that leaves logic at the door.
  — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 18 Aug. 2021
• John, 75, was delightfully hammy between songs, popping up from his piano bench to point and grin at the crowd while mouthing thanks and leading a concert that felt brisk, but never rote.
  — Melissa Ruggieri, USA TODAY, 16 July 2022
• So what if the scripts can be schmaltzy, the performances on the hammy side, and The Holiday contains one of the most grating scenes ever committed to film in Winslet’s smug morning air guitar session?
  — Kerry McDermott, Vogue, 7 Dec. 2022
• Oh, not funny in that Broadway-ish way with a set-up and a punchline delivered with hammy panache, but rather naturally funny.
  — Rod Stafford Hagwood, Sun Sentinel, 30 Mar. 2023
• Olivier’s is big and hammy and searing and often quite devastating.
  — Tim Grierson, Vulture, 26 Apr. 2021
• Yet Bennett and pianist Ralph Sharon strip away any and all rococo folderol to get to the meat of rejection with their spare, cutting (yet still happily hammy) rendition.
  — A.d. Amorosi, Variety, 21 July 2023
• The turnaround doesn't exactly work; William Shatner's performance in this episode is notoriously hammy and over the top.
  — Corey S Powell, Discover Magazine, 1 Mar. 2015
• The fact that Cossette wasn’t nominated didn’t stop the hammy producer from joining his colleagues on the Grammy stage and giving an acceptance speech.
  — Paul Grein, Billboard, 30 Dec. 2022
• The so-so all-star adaptation of Noel Coward's play features an extraordinarily hammy Dan Stevens and plenty of cheese.
  — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 19 Feb. 2021

Last Updated: 9 Oct 2024