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How to use campy in a sentence

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The snappy dialogue is there, but the story is full of huge gaps and campy scenes that come out of left field to up the comedic ante.
Certainly the Evil Dead movies are campy horror, but kind of a macho camp, if there is such a thing.
The dialogue is frenetic and noirish, the action punctuated by a string of jarring, campy song-and-dance numbers.
There's so much macho posturing in this book that it would be campy if there were any humour.
His campy gay stereotype act is hilarious, especially since he drops it with a roll of his eyes whenever the smitten guards aren't watching.
In this respect, the piece is operatic and, like opera, is sometimes exaggerated and campy.
Nevertheless, with its campy sword and sorcery adventures, The Barbarian was right at home at the fringe.
She'd been sitting quietly up until this point, but decided to have a great old yak in protest while Lee does this really appalling campy dance.
The team ownership was spectacular, and while many of the promotions were campy as all get out, they never did anything halfway.
The way he escapes capture is amusingly campy and clever, and the fight scene is dizzying with an unexpected twist.
Both the books and the films are artful and entertaining, but also more than a little bit campy, like zoot suits and swing dancing.
The main weakness of the tradition is an attitude of campy superiority, one that can quickly become self-congratulatory.
As the cabal's infiltrant, Dolores Umbridge, Staunton is pitch-perfect in her twinkle-eyed, campy villainousness.
Riffing on campy styles ranging from karaoke to '80s rock videos, the tunes are both catchy and hilarious.
And while the plot makes the film sound like a campy thriller, it never falls into that trap.
Historical fiction varies from campy romance to character studies with imaginative insights more exact than fact.
The kooky comedy may have had 'em rolling in the aisles forty years ago, but today the humor feels a trifle campy and seriously dated.
Liam Neeson is a stylish and real villain, choosing to inject his character with humanity instead of campy theatrics.
Both were meant to show cutting-edge technology, but now they are extremely campy, outdated relics of yesteryear and just a plum bad idea.
The film plays like a live-action cartoon, with deliberately flat backdrops, oversized props, and campy, exaggerated action.
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While criticism focused on its comedic and campy tone, Reeve was praised for his much darker performance as an evil Supes.
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