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Recent Examples of campy
The half-dozen screens punctuating the show with this gesture offer potent and campy but all-too-serious reminders that anger and nostalgia for a world of white supremacy are not dead.
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Horace D. Ballard, Artforum, 22 Apr. 2026
The director notes that Houghton loves Jennifer’s Body (Body screenwriter Diablo Cody later boarded as producer their new movie), and both yearned to create something campy.
—Nicole Fell, HollywoodReporter, 7 Apr. 2026
Eurovision expands to Asia The Eurovision Song Contest on Tuesday announced its first Asia edition, with Bangkok set to host the campy international competition in the fall.
—Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson, semafor.com, 2 Apr. 2026
On a campy and subversive new album featuring Bladee, the Ukrainian black metal artist aspires to make the notoriously forbidding genre a little warmer.
—Sadie Sartini Garner, Pitchfork, 31 Mar. 2026
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Horace D. Ballard, Artforum, 22 Apr. 2026
The director notes that Houghton loves Jennifer’s Body (Body screenwriter Diablo Cody later boarded as producer their new movie), and both yearned to create something campy.
—Nicole Fell, HollywoodReporter, 7 Apr. 2026
Eurovision expands to Asia The Eurovision Song Contest on Tuesday announced its first Asia edition, with Bangkok set to host the campy international competition in the fall.
—Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson, semafor.com, 2 Apr. 2026
On a campy and subversive new album featuring Bladee, the Ukrainian black metal artist aspires to make the notoriously forbidding genre a little warmer.
—Sadie Sartini Garner, Pitchfork, 31 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for campy
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The first phase of Olympic ice dance was once an aristocratic affair — ruffles and frills flying as athletes performed romantic tangos, foppish quick steps and Viennese waltzes with straight backs and exaggerated posture.—
Robert Samuels,
Washington Post,
9 Feb. 2026
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Speaking of styling tricks to steal, the foppish ties that almost looked like silk scarves or ribbons at the Yohji Yamamoto show would be a good alternative for women who want some kind of necktie but think a traditional men’s tie reads too costumey.—
Marisa Meltzer,
Vanity Fair,
29 Jan. 2026
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Not for anyone important; the cantankerous artist (played by Ian McKellen), the protagonist of Steven Soderbergh’s new movie, The Christophers, is recording jokey Cameos for eager fans.—
David Sims,
The Atlantic,
10 Apr. 2026
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Forty-seven has special significance there thanks to a jokey student project from the '60s, which attempted to prove that the number appears in nature more often than any other.—
Richard Edwards,
Space.com,
5 Mar. 2026
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Its founder, Mara McCarthy, is the daughter of Conceptual artist Paul McCarthy, who gained prominence in the 1990s for his playful installations critiquing pop culture and featuring such unusual materials as peanut butter, chocolate, and anal plugs.—
News Desk,
Artforum,
27 Apr. 2026
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The video offers a playful reminder of just how far remote work has evolved.—
Ashley Vega,
PEOPLE,
27 Apr. 2026
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Not too serious or sappy, but with room for both earnestness and whimsy.—
New York Times,
New York Times,
21 Apr. 2026
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Maple Trees Maple trees are just as sappy as birch trees, so pruning them when the sap is running can be a messy situation.—
Melissa Locker,
Southern Living,
19 Apr. 2026
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Top it off with butterfly solar lights, also found at Dollar Tree, for a whimsical finishing touch.—
Lauren Jarvis-Gibson,
Sacbee.com,
28 Apr. 2026
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In between, the brand would release drops of basics, which spanned whimsical cotton poplin to bodycon jersey separates.—
Lucy Maguire,
Vogue,
27 Apr. 2026
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For the magazine’s seventy-fifth anniversary, in 2000, the dog-loving portraitist William Wegman dressed up one of his Weimaraners as Eustace Tilley, our dandyish mascot, originally drawn by Rea Irvin.—
The New Yorker,
New Yorker,
15 Sep. 2025
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Aline Brosh McKenna’s script is sharp and witty.—
Zack Sharf,
Variety,
28 Apr. 2026
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The starry voice cast delivers on all fronts, especially with lines provided by Mazin’s witty and wise script.—
Pete Hammond,
Deadline,
27 Apr. 2026
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As Berenger’s prissy friend Gene, the character who transforms the most during the course of the play, Phillip Taratula changes in both body and soul.—
Christopher Arnott,
Hartford Courant,
18 Mar. 2026
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Only on Industry can listening to one’s conscience come off as prissy and weak.—
Amanda Whiting,
Vulture,
23 Feb. 2026
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“Campy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/campy. Accessed 2 May. 2026.
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