Definitions
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- n. The quality of being naff.
Etymologies
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Examples
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The brand image it generates is of something cheap and disposable, shallow and callow, prone to formulation, infantilism and the all-round naffness of any compensatory fantasy.
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There's a seam of naffness to Justice's techno cock-rock formation which is peculiarly French.
Why are Justice, Phoenix and Daft Punk so in love with soft rock?
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Presumably designed to suggest kookiness; naffness is, in fact, the achieved effect. #books about 16 hours, 19 minutes ago
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In accordance with his dogma that sex cannot be represented he dances faffily around the many scenes of coupling and shagging that litter the novel 'the nightly interaction, the indescribable deed, now took place', 23; but the sex keeps clattering back into describability and, indeed, naffness.
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In other words, complete naffness in the form of printed matter.
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Mind you AoT would need some serious budget to avoid the wobbly sets a la “Neighbours” or the naffness of 1970s Dr Who.
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NO,NO, NO - his jeans are 100% offensive - and it wouldn't matter if Brad Pitt was wearing them - the jeans would still be the height of naffness.
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This naff business is very tricky, as it has always been uncool to proclaim how cool one is, including by deriding the uncoolness–I mean naffness–of others.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Summer Reruns: Chris Isaak and the Silvertones (and more):
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We here at the Volokh Conspiracy wear our naffness as a badge of honor though I have not polled my fellow Conspirators on this, as I imagine do many of our readers.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Summer Reruns: Chris Isaak and the Silvertones (and more):
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Perhaps Gwydion–a self-described “American Academic on Sabbatical in London”–was embarrassed by his own display of anti-naff naffness.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Summer Reruns: Chris Isaak and the Silvertones (and more):
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