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- noun the state of being
hammy
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Examples
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Ms. Nakadate's hamminess is better suited to video, where she continually toys with the expectations of the viewer.
Does This Make You Feel Uneasy? Richard B. Woodward 2011
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Ms. Nakadate's hamminess is better suited to video, where she continually toys with the expectations of the viewer.
Does This Make You Feel Uneasy? Richard B. Woodward 2011
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I'm glad Carrey is definitely out, otherwise, the film would become bogged down with hamminess.
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Just that particular hamminess of man meat locked too long in dingy tighty whities.
Ramona at the Funeral Thomas Pluck 2011
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Given the level of hamminess that we were privy to in this episode (which I'd say was in the Top 10 of all time, btw), I should have taken it as foreshadowing.
Taking the boot off 2009
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Such bodily appeal should not entail hamminess or indicate intellectual or moral condescension; good verses don't need to be artificially sweetened.
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It's a little bit "Young Indiana Jones," juiced up with today's "Da Vinci Code" or "National Treasure" - style of crypto-deducto hamminess.
Cartoon's 'Unnatural History' is escapist fun, but MTV's 'RJ Berger' is a bore 2010
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Or to put it another way, it's a world in which William Shatner can play a paranoid artist who may have murdered his wife with all the patented hamminess he would bring in just a few years to his portrayal of Captian Kirk and not appear to be overacting in comparison with the other actors around him.
Tin Boxes 2008
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Such bodily appeal should not entail hamminess or indicate intellectual or moral condescension; good verses don't need to be artificially sweetened.
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With miraculous grace, he egged on the hamminess out of his actors without out turning the production into melodrama.
James Scarborough: "Leiris/Picasso," The Bootleg Theater 2010
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