Example sentences for: campy

How can you use “campy” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • 1 at the box office and earning a qualified critical approbation for its self-referentially campy chic.

  • No, worse than awful: desperate" (Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly ). Instead of going for the tongue-in-cheek, campy horror style so popular of late, director Jan De Bont ( Speed ) relies on old-fashioned things-that-go-bump-in-the-night scares.

  • The Met's retrospective of the campy designer's clothing stirs up debate.

  • Indeed, seen in a contemporary light, Darger begins to look like a progenitor of that rather common, campy sensibility--what might be called Mouseketeer Gothic--that sees angelic pop-culture figures as actually creepy and frightening.

  • Reviewers praise Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar for abandoning his campy proclivities to make a film noir with social bite.


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