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campy
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Providing sophisticated amusement by virtue of having artificially (and vulgarly) mannered or banal or sentimental qualities
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adjective
Providing sophisticated amusement by virtue of having artificially (and vulgarly) mannered or banal or sentimental qualities
“They played up the silliness of their roles for camp effect”
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They played up the silliness of their roles for camp effect
Campy Hollywood musicals of the 1940's
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