Definitions for campy
ˈkæm picampy

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1. camp, campyadjective

   providing sophisticated amusement by virtue of having artificially (and vulgarly) mannered or banal or sentimental qualities

   "they played up the silliness of their roles for camp effect"; "campy Hollywood musicals of the 1940's"

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1. campyadjective

   Characterized by camp or kitsch, especially when deliberate or intentional.

   Stu liked to watch campy B-movie horror flicks from the 50s, not because they scared him, but because he found them funny.

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1. campy

   Camp is an aesthetic style and sensibility that regards something as appealing because of its bad taste and ironic value. Camp aesthetics disrupt many of modernism's notions of what art is and what can be classified as high art by inverting aesthetic attributes such as beauty, value, and taste through an invitation of a different kind of apprehension and consumption.Camp can also be a social practice and function as a style and performance identity for several types of entertainment including film, cabaret, and pantomime. Where high art necessarily incorporates beauty and value, camp necessarily needs to be lively, audacious and dynamic. The visual style is closely associated with gay culture.Camp art is related to and often confused with kitsch and things with camp appeal may be described as cheesy. In 1909, Oxford English Dictionary defined camp as "ostentatious, exaggerated, affected, theatrical; effeminate or homosexual" behavior, and by the middle of the 1970s, camp was defined by the college edition of Webster's New World Dictionary as "banality, mediocrity, artifice, [and] ostentation ... so extreme as to amuse or have a perversely sophisticated appeal". The American writer Susan Sontag's essay Notes on "Camp" (1964) emphasized its key elements as: "artifice, frivolity, naïve middle-class pretentiousness, and shocking excess".

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1. campy

   Campy refers to a style or mode of expression that is deliberately exaggerated, theatrical, and characterized by humor, irony, or extreme stylization. It is often associated with kitschy or cheesy, clichéd elements, and is typically used in relation to art, literature, fashion, or entertainment that satirize or subvert traditional genres and conventions.

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1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of campy in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of campy in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of campy in a Sentence

1. Paul Koretz:

   It's a great place where you see just about everybody, a very diverse group of people from film and TV stars to professional athletes to a lot of regular folks who just want good, reasonable food and have been going there for many years, it's a very campy place and it's a community gathering spot - and it would just be a tragic loss.

2. Paul Koretz:

   It's a very campy place and it's a community gathering spot - and it would just be a tragic loss.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
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2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Campy
3. ^ Wikipedia
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