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- adverb in a
hammy manner
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Examples
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As Rex gets taken off in the ambulance to infiltrate the module, Jack hammily makes out the pair are an item.
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Eva Mendes shows off her cleavage but adds little else to the mix, whilst Peter Fonda hammily mocks his role in Easy Rider as baddie Mephistopheles.
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But the quality of TV drama (or, more accurately, American TV drama - there's something seriously wrong when the hammily acted, poorly plotted Doctor Who gets a BAFTA award for Best Drama programme over here!) is another factor.
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While the characters feel for the most part engagingly true to life an exception being Larry Fleischman's upstairs old fart, played too hammily to convince, it's the monsters that are the weakest link.
The rats are slumming Arbogast 2008
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The problem is, the replica Mickey that then drives Rose off for pizza is so hammily made up and played that you have to wonder what was going through the director's mind.
New Doctor Who thoughts Jonathan 2005
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The problem is, the replica Mickey that then drives Rose off for pizza is so hammily made up and played that you have to wonder what was going through the director's mind.
Archive 2005-03-01 Jonathan 2005
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Will the man and woman bicker shallowly or emote hammily?
Archive 2006-03-01 Ann Althouse 2006
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He jabbed an elbow into my ribs, then raised his arm and hammily flexed a bicep.
Confederacy of Silence Richard Rubin 2002
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He jabbed an elbow into my ribs, then raised his arm and hammily flexed a bicep.
Confederacy of Silence Richard Rubin 2002
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He jabbed an elbow into my ribs, then raised his arm and hammily flexed a bicep.
Confederacy of Silence Richard Rubin 2002
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