campy

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These almost campy, and sometimes straight-up campy, stories just seem stupid now.

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

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  • Napoli was very different from Club Turk: Italian-campy, with plaster of Paris busts and dusty wine bottles in niches in the brick walls; lots of red plush upholstery, and ornate gold frames around mirrors and dark oil portraits of guys who all looked like Lorenzo de' Medici. —  Muller, Marcia - [20] - While Other People Sleep
  • He could push the return button and be back long before any message could get there, but if there was ever a time for the campy or pithy remark, this was it. —  AnalogSFF,January-February2007
  • Yes, Runaways is a fun book, packed with humour and action, but it also is not campy, which is exactly what penciller Humberto Ramos is doing. —  comicbookbin.com
  • WMC for being clunky, campy, and completely implausible, is it really any more embarrassing than Cynthia Nixon and her multiple-personalies on Oscars 2008 —  Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
  • Sure the plot seemed kind of campy, but I was on board with the idea of time traveling and saving the world. —  Gaming Nexus
 

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