campy
adj/ˈkæmpi/US
Etymology
From camp (“an affected or exaggerated style”) + -y.
Definitions
Characterized by camp or kitsch, especially when deliberate or intentional.
- Stu liked to watch campy B-movie horror flicks from the 1950s, not because they scared him, but because he found them funny.
- Poison Ivy captures the essence of "Batman and Robin," a wild, campy costume party of a movie and the first "Batman" to suggest that somewhere in Gotham City there might be a Studio 54.
- It no longer worked, culturally or financially, to be either snooty or campy about lowbrow culture; at the same time its mediation of highbrow culture no longer counted for much either.
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA