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as in jokey
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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
Adjective
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Her husband, the filmmaker, wears a foppish silk scarf.—
Jesse Green,
New York Times,
19 Mar. 2025
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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
Adjective
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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
Adjective
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From Carol Stream, Kyle Daily’s knives have playful handles with a contoured coke-bottle shape, whimsical file work along the spine and studs pressed in like polka-dots.—
Ahmed Ali Akbar,
Chicago Tribune,
31 Mar. 2025
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Embrace authentic storytelling, playful language and unique design.—
Expert Panel®,
Forbes.com,
31 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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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
Adjective
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The Peeps, which come in pastel pink, yellow and purple, will add a whimsical touch to your decorations.—
Nora Colomer,
FOXNews.com,
10 Apr. 2025
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Part of the whimsical display included pieces upholstered with Hemispheres Collection textiles in Milan’s evocative Cinque Vie district.—
Sofia Celeste,
Footwear News,
10 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Hiromi and Feraud coyly dialogued in the same movement: Feraud strummed way up the neck of his electric bass, and Hiromi, ever witty, mimicked him by flicking the strings of her Yamaha concert grand.—
Hannah Edgar,
Chicago Tribune,
5 Apr. 2025
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Sherald’s work is imbued with witty literary references (Jane Austen, Octavia E. Butler, Emily Dickinson, Zora Neale Hurston, and Toni Morrison) and clever art historical homage.—
Natasha Gural,
Forbes.com,
4 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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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
Adjective
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Could all this jocular, misogynistic vulgarity influence anybody?—
Helen Shaw,
New Yorker,
4 Apr. 2025
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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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“Campy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/campy. Accessed 14 Apr. 2025.
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