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hammy
adjective as in affected
Strong matches
adjective as in exaggerated
Strongest matches
adjective as in histrionic
adjective as in la-di-da
Weak matches
- apish
- artificial
- assumed
- awkward
- campy
- chichi
- conceited
- contrived
- counterfeit
- counterfeited
- faked
- false
- feigned
- fraud
- gone Hollywood
- ham
- highfalutin
- hollow
- imitated
- insincere
- mannered
- melodramatic
- ostentatious
- overdone
- pedantic
- phony
- playacting
- pompous
- precious
- pretended
- pretentious
- put on
- schmaltzy
- self-conscious
- shallow
- sham
- simulated
- spurious
- stiff
- stilted
- studied
- superficial
- theatrical
- unnatural
adjective as in melodramatic
adjective as in theatrical
Example Sentences
It’s not easy when you pull a hammy just as you’re getting set to pull away from the pack.
But her cruel mother, who Berlant plays with an Irish accent even though we’re told she’s Spanish, doesn’t believe this is a suitable gift for her hammy daughter and smashes it on the floor.
“Anything that was hammy would stick out like a sore thumb.”
“I’m not sure about Artie, we got to wait to see because it’s a hammy, got to see how he does.”
“He just had a little bit of a tight hammy,’’ Carroll said of Diggs.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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