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Recent Examples of campy
The custom shearling bag channeled a campy edge and of course, sportswear, reimagining the size of the racquet with exaggerated proportions and adding a playful pop of color and texture to the otherwise all-white outfit.
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Tiana Randall, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025
Obsessing over those cats is a campy Kristen Wiig, while Laila Lockhart Kraner returns from the series as Gabby and Gloria Estefan plays her grandmother.
—Jack Smart, People.com, 31 Aug. 2025
New Shows All's Fair (Hulu) Date TBA High gloss, campy drama?
—Lucy Ford, Time, 28 Aug. 2025
Set four years before Danny Zucko (John Travolta) and the T-Birds ruled Rydell High, the campy prequel takes viewers back to 1954 to chronicle the origin story of the school's titular girl gang and its trailblazing founders.
—James Mercadante, EW.com, 22 Aug. 2025
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Tiana Randall, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025
Obsessing over those cats is a campy Kristen Wiig, while Laila Lockhart Kraner returns from the series as Gabby and Gloria Estefan plays her grandmother.
—Jack Smart, People.com, 31 Aug. 2025
New Shows All's Fair (Hulu) Date TBA High gloss, campy drama?
—Lucy Ford, Time, 28 Aug. 2025
Set four years before Danny Zucko (John Travolta) and the T-Birds ruled Rydell High, the campy prequel takes viewers back to 1954 to chronicle the origin story of the school's titular girl gang and its trailblazing founders.
—James Mercadante, EW.com, 22 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for campy
Adjective
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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.—
Noel Murray,
Vulture,
13 Aug. 2025
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Her husband, the filmmaker, wears a foppish silk scarf.—
Jesse Green,
New York Times,
19 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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There is nothing funny about the film’s jokey title, which is just a strained metaphor.—
Caryn James,
HollywoodReporter,
31 Aug. 2025
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Despite more complicated challenges, the cast are as jokey and jovial as ever.—
Sabrina Weiss,
People.com,
21 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Mixing prints takes the trend to an even more playful approach, so have fun combining plaids with stripes and dots with florals.—
Gabrielle Porcaro,
Travel + Leisure,
17 Sep. 2025
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At the Collina Strada show, where founder and creative director Hillary Taymour often presents a playful but politically salient concept, models came out in twos.—
Jacqui Palumbo,
CNN Money,
17 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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The absence of corruption, scandal, self-dealing and cronyism makes this a revitalizing break from real-world concerns, without in any way veering into sappy idealism.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
27 Aug. 2025
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With a pair of catwalks jutting from the oval stage, the guys roam into the crowd, all while hitting their dance moves, and blending their upbeat pop anthems with the sappier ballads that made them into a heartthrob collective.—
Anna Kaufman,
USA Today,
13 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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The best lampshades come in many forms, whether as a simple drum, a rice paper shade à la Noguchi, or a whimsical scalloped model.—
Kate McGregor,
Architectural Digest,
19 Sep. 2025
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The gown also included delicate embroidery featured in a whimsical motif near the hem of the skirt.—
Julia Teti,
Footwear News,
18 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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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.—
The New Yorker,
New Yorker,
15 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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The post has also attracted over 181,300 likes and a flood of witty comments from amused users imagining the dog's thoughts.—
Lucy Notarantonio,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 Sep. 2025
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The most heart-tugging acceptance speech was given by the witty and whip-smart Juliette Hohnen (Douglas Elliman) who won the award for Celebrity Property Portfolio.—
Hadley Meares,
HollywoodReporter,
18 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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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.—
Jim Higgins,
Journal Sentinel,
24 Jan. 2023
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Some of that’s changing times, some of that is because a not-insignificant portion of W.A.S.P. fans are prissy suburbanites themselves.—
Andy O'Connor,
SPIN,
13 Jan. 2023
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“Campy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/campy. Accessed 21 Sep. 2025.
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