campy
adjective
1.
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”
Origin
From camp (“an affected or exaggerated style”) + -y.
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