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campy

adjective

providing sophisticated amusement by virtue of having artificially (and vulgarly) mannered or banal or sentimental qualities

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Word length
5
Starts with
C
Ends with
Y
Contains
AM
Scrabble score
14

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adjective

  1. 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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