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CAMPY
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Providing sophisticated amusement by virtue of having artificially (and vulgarly) mannered or banal or sentimental qualities
Example:
campy Hollywood musicals of the 1940's
Synonyms:
camp; campy
Classified under:
Similar:
tasteless (lacking aesthetic or social taste)
Derivation:
camp (something that is considered amusing not because of its originality but because of its unoriginality)
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