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Recent Examples of campy
Everything about this new Rae was strange, campy, and, most important, fun.
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Brittany Spanos, Rolling Stone, 21 Jan. 2025
Fox’s red carpet look was, of course, something campy and funny because that’s her style.
—Aamina Inayat Khan, StyleCaster, 3 Feb. 2025
That’s no doubt because their contributions to this equally campy and earnest musical signal a truly collaborative endeavor.
—Manuel Betancourt, Los Angeles Times, 29 Oct. 2024
The opening ceremony of the 2024 Paris Olympics was a campy explosion of French culture that even pouring rain couldn’t dampen as 85 boats carrying athletes from 205 delegations puttered down the Seine to rapturous applause from an enthusiastic crowd.
—Tess Demeyer, The Athletic, 26 July 2024
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Brittany Spanos, Rolling Stone, 21 Jan. 2025
Fox’s red carpet look was, of course, something campy and funny because that’s her style.
—Aamina Inayat Khan, StyleCaster, 3 Feb. 2025
That’s no doubt because their contributions to this equally campy and earnest musical signal a truly collaborative endeavor.
—Manuel Betancourt, Los Angeles Times, 29 Oct. 2024
The opening ceremony of the 2024 Paris Olympics was a campy explosion of French culture that even pouring rain couldn’t dampen as 85 boats carrying athletes from 205 delegations puttered down the Seine to rapturous applause from an enthusiastic crowd.
—Tess Demeyer, The Athletic, 26 July 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for campy
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Among his electronic competitors was Thomas, a foppish, rail-thin twentysomething with a penchant for provocatively unbuttoned silk shirts, and who spoke nonchalantly about Gaussian functions, Faraday’s law of induction, and something called the hysteresis curve.—
Matthew Sherrill,
Harper's Magazine,
19 Feb. 2025
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And then that version of Nosferatu fell apart, and Bill was cast in The Northman as this sort of foppish cousin of Alexander Skarsgård.—
Matt Zoller Seitz,
Vulture,
14 Jan. 2025
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The jokey San Francisco production, as staged by Shawna Lucey for L.A. Opera following Cavanagh’s death a year ago, takes an extreme path.—
Mark Swed,
Los Angeles Times,
12 Mar. 2025
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Reading ‘Inner Excellence?’ There have been a deluge of jokey comments and memes regarding the event.—
Callum Booth,
Forbes,
13 Jan. 2025
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Designers are leaning into contrast, pairing breezy fabrics with tailored precision while a muted yet playful color palette sets the tone.—
Jailynn Taylor,
Essence,
19 Mar. 2025
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Braswell told Newsweek via TikTok that Sadie started becoming less and less playful with age.—
Dan Perry,
Newsweek,
18 Mar. 2025
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This has reflected neither sappy altruism nor cynical neoimperialism but an understanding that in the modern world, economics and security need to be handled at something beyond the national level.—
Gideon Rose,
Foreign Affairs,
8 Mar. 2025
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Into a routine casting call one afternoon walks Michael, an Ohio ice-cream truck driver effusing sappy memories of watching the series every morning with his family over bacon and eggs.—
Angie Han,
The Hollywood Reporter,
3 Sep. 2019
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Delicate butterfly appliqués across the bust add a whimsical touch.—
Patricia Alfonso Tortolani,
Allure,
18 Mar. 2025
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Her wispy, whimsical vocals hovered above glitchy pre-recorded montages of laughter, snippets of conversation, and glowing synth swells from a laptop to her right.—
Stephen Thomas Erlewine,
Rolling Stone,
15 Mar. 2025
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Alice Nelson In the series, Alice is the resourceful, witty housekeeper who can do it all.—
Athena Sobhan,
People.com,
8 Mar. 2025
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Despite his character's cliched traits — a witty, street-wise cop who plays by his own rules — Weathers steals the show with his acting chops and stunning physique.—
Joe Guillen,
Axios,
7 Mar. 2025
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Albee's 1962 play won a Tony Award, and would have also won a Pulitzer Prize for drama, if the prissy trustees of Columbia University hadn't overruled the jury.—
Jim Higgins,
Journal Sentinel,
24 Jan. 2023
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Some of that’s changing times, some of that is because a not-insignificant portion of W.A.S.P. fans are prissy suburbanites themselves.—
Andy O'Connor,
SPIN,
13 Jan. 2023
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Bini, whose jocular banter is only upended by his ability to carefully listen and practically intervene, helps people struggling with fertility as well as with their gender transition.—
Ritesh Mehta,
IndieWire,
31 Jan. 2025
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The interviews were jocular, an approach that seemed tactless, given the film’s subject matter.—
Doreen St. Félix,
The New Yorker,
13 Jan. 2025
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“Campy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/campy. Accessed 24 Mar. 2025.
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