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Recent Examples of campy
For the beloved, campy series' fifth season, Lily Collins' titular character is traveling to Italy.
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Madeleine Janz, PEOPLE, 30 Nov. 2025
This campy sequel to The Addams Family features an all-star cast that includes Anjelica Huston, Joan Cusack, and Christopher Lloyd bringing a satirical twist to the traditional Thanksgiving narrative.
—Erica Jackson Curran, Parents, 27 Nov. 2025
The campy action comedy follows two train stewardesses who upgrade their shifts from the Stank Rail to the luxurious Glamazonian Express.
—Andrew McGowan, Variety, 25 Nov. 2025
Bullies take many shapes and forms, pushy clients, domineering partners and uncooperative internals, filling out a murderer’s row of enough antagonists to populate Death Wish and its four increasingly campy sequels.
—Paul Fitzgerald, Rolling Stone, 13 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for campy
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The owner, clad in a foppish costume, is throwing a fancy party filled with people who don’t feel obliged to follow the evacuation orders of some paramilitary stooge.—
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Her husband, the filmmaker, wears a foppish silk scarf.—
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The two have engaged in secret phone calls, developed jokey nicknames, snuck off to smoke joints, and even had some pretty vulnerable conversations.—
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But there’s nothing jokey or tacky about their presence, and the actors’ performances do nothing so much as bring the love.—
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Hudson’s performance kicks into a surprising dramatic gear, the actress’s playful Milwaukee accent settling into a relatively somber key, grappling with dreams dashed.—
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From minimalist finishes to playful graphics and elevated textures, these manicures set the tone for the year ahead, proving that short nails aren’t a fallback—they’re the focus.—
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This was so much sappier than anticipated.—
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Alphabet joined Fidelity Investments in a $1 billion funding round in 2015 in exchange for what was then a 10% stake in SpaceX. Christmas kitsch boom Connecticut is cashing in on its role in sappy Christmas movies.—
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The asymmetrical design also featured a daring hip-high slit that completely bared her left leg and a whimsical thigh-high tight.—
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The whimsical cover introduces readers to Saffy and Lumo, two best friends whose devotion to their favorite foods leads to an unexpected, and very literal, transformation.—
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For the magazine’s seventy-fifth anniversary, in 2000, the dog-loving portraitist William Wegman dressed up one of his Weimaraners as Eustace Tilley, our dandyish mascot, originally drawn by Rea Irvin.—
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Bode will play Greta Mills, Ro’s smart, witty and ambitious research partner who unwittingly becomes entangled in the film’s violent conflict.—
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In late April, love gets chatty and playful when Venus enters Gemini, followed by electric Uranus, bringing sparks through conversation, witty banter, spontaneous plans and flirting that starts as a joke and ends in a date.—
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Despite its heavy premise, the movie also has absurdities, among them Conan O’Brien as a judgmental, prissy therapist.—
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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.—
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“Campy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/campy. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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