What is the meaning of campy?

adjective

  • Providing sophisticated amusement by virtue of having artificially (and vulgarly) mannered or banal or sentimental qualities.
    • usage: "they played up the silliness of their roles for camp effect"; "campy Hollywood musicals of the 1940's"
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