How to Use campy in a Sentence

campy

adjective
  • So campy and kitschy and glorious.
    — Literary Hub, 16 Mar. 2026
  • But all this campy extravagance could not hold off the specter of war.
    — Rhonda Garelick, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2023
  • To the rest of the world, this person is this campy eccentric thing.
    — H. Alan Scott, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Yet over the years, this campy horror film has become a cult favorite.
    — Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping, 30 Sep. 2022
  • And did something funny and kitschy and campy, but also poignant?
    — Joe Lynch, Billboard, 5 Nov. 2025
  • The end result was fun, campy and lighthearted enough to feel in on the joke.
    — Julie Hinds, Freep.com, 17 Oct. 2025
  • While the singer has had a new haircut, he's added a campy ’80s mustache.
    — Christian Allaire, Vogue, 10 Sep. 2019
  • At times it was done to comic effect, and today has come to be seen as more than a tad campy.
    — John Petkovic, cleveland.com, 12 Jan. 2018
  • Truth be told, the movie looks suitably stylish, with Stone having a campy and kinky blast.
    — Scott Mendelson, Forbes, 8 Apr. 2021
  • And what in the name of all things campy was in Lady Gaga's wagon?
    — Vogue, 13 May 2019
  • The songs have a corny, campy vibe that would be enjoyable in smaller doses.
    — Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 6 Oct. 2023
  • That a musical doesn’t have to be breezy and carefree, nor campy and dated.
    — New York Times, 16 Feb. 2022
  • Pithy phrases and campy glitz may be great for selling things, but that's not what this language was made for.
    — Aj Willingham, CNN, 5 June 2021
  • Swift commits to the bit with slinky, campy energy, but nothing could have saved this.
    — Janey Tracey, Entertainment Weekly, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Swift commits to the bit with slinky, campy energy, but nothing could have saved this.
    — Janey Tracey, EW.com, 14 Mar. 2024
  • This rom-comic ad-movie is campy, but not camp in the strict Sontagian sense.
    — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 14 Dec. 2020
  • And so the host pulled a lever that played context-free clips that were campy, confusing, dark, or all three.
    — Dan Snierson, EW.com, 24 June 2021
  • For some viewers, the conclusion is campy and far-fetched, a twist for the sake of being a twist.
    — Yohana Desta, Rolling Stone, 23 Jan. 2026
  • It was criticized for being campy in all the wrong ways and lacking the edge with which the first three films thrived.
    — Ryan Parker, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Feb. 2020
  • The result, then, was Darkman; this movie is weird, twisted, campy, and fun in a lot of ways.
    — Evan Romano, Men's Health, 25 May 2022
  • Shooting the campy video was a wild (and totally amusing) affair for the whole crew.
    — Christian Allaire, Vogue, 31 Oct. 2020
  • The movie is campy, iconic and undeniably fun.
    — Keith Langston, PEOPLE, 27 Oct. 2025
  • To give this palette a modern spin, err on the side of earth tones as opposed to the bright, campy colors of decades past.
    — Jessica Bennett, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Aug. 2023
  • To give this palette a modern spin, err on the side of earth tones as opposed to the bright, campy colors of decades past.
    — Jessica Bennett, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Aug. 2023
  • During the winter holidays, Odette went in for big, vampy, campy decor.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, Entertainment Weekly, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Forty years ago, a series with an on-the-rise soap actor and a campy premise barreled into the zeitgeist.
    — Ryan Gajewski, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Oct. 2022
  • Champagne before noon, the works) and add a drag show (lip-synching, campy makeup, and of course, drag queens).
    — Nico Avalle, Bon Appétit, 22 June 2022
  • Both ads were campy, cute and according to the campaign, very effective.
    — Peter Kiefer, HollywoodReporter, 23 Oct. 2025
  • In the short clip, Chalamet is seen riding on the back of a truck, singing to a campy backing track.
    — Zoe Haylock, Vulture, 13 Oct. 2021
  • The sale is also full of weird, campy little prints (non-derogatory)—the bandana print and the leopard print ones def caught my eye.
    — Aamina Inayat Khan, StyleCaster, 26 Nov. 2024

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