hammily

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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

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   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