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hammily en · ADV

Etymology

From hammy + -ly.

Meanings

1. in a hammy manner
   • Peter Zahradnick is hammily creepy as the doomed handyman who wises up to Rhoda before anyone else. 1990 August 10, Lawrence Bommer, “The Bad Seed/Craig's Wife”, in Chicago Reader:
   • Baltar, played hammily as a selfish, cowardly survivor, is to “Battlestar Galactica” what Erica Kane is to “All My Children” — an amusingly villainous central character who brings a little campy comic relief to all that earnest, jaw-clenched melodrama. 2008 April 4, Alessandra Stanley, “Space Opera Returns: One Last Step for Mankind”, in New York Times:

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