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Definition of hammy in English: hammyadjectivehammiest, hammier ˈhamiˈhæmi 1informal (of acting or an actor) exaggerated or over-theatrical. 〈非正式〉（表演，演员）过火的，夸张的 there is some hammy acting 有一些夸张的表演。 Example sentencesExamples - It's hard now to see the lame special effects and hammy acting of Star Trek without giggling to myself.
- Which singer will die next and have his dumb musician's problems re-enacted by a hammy actor who wants an Oscar really bad?
- This disc escapes the electric chair only due to the judge's fascination with William Shatner's hammy acting.
- Autobiography used to be the preserve of hammy actors, gammy lieutenant commanders and superannuated hangers-on to the Bloomsbury Group.
- Wolfgang Koch sings with well-focussed richness as Peter, the son driven to an excess of hammy acting by Eva's desertion.
- Ropey dialogue and hammy acting abound, and Zombie seems in no hurry to wind up the proceedings as the film starts to feel interminable.
- The acting was hammy, the jokes were forced, and the entire thing came across like a high school play - actors overdoing everything in cringe-worthy performances.
- If you can put yourself in a mental place to enjoy this completely flawed but eminently watchable sci-fi homage, you will be rewarded with clever twists, enjoyably hammy acting, and great footage of a stunning woman in her prime.
- They used hammy actors to ‘reconstruct’ the alleged plot, with sinister characters smearing a dark substance on door handles.
- Other reviews of Star Trek II - The Wrath Of Khan I've read on the Internet have commented on its melodramatics and its hammy acting.
- It would be hard, for example, for someone playing Bottom (John Ramm, in this case) to preen and swagger, when showing off his hammy acting, if he is barefoot, as was the entire cast here.
- Sadly, the acting is never hammy enough to be enjoyable and the sets are well constructed just enough to be convincing.
- How are you supposed to follow the story when you're constantly making sarcastic comments about the hammy acting?
- However, the consistently bad dialogue, expensive set design and knowingly hammy acting lifts it almost to pastiche level.
- His speech was a lamentable effort - nothing about it was convincing, from the hammy acting to the misfired soundbites.
- While the films are plagued by poorly developed plots and hammy acting, the fight sequences are excellent in that they reveal the true roots of Jackie's training.
- Look beyond the ancient effects and hammy acting, however, and you'll find reflected on the movie the familiar gaze of innocent eyes.
- The voice acting is deliberately hammy, the sound effects are loud and intrusive and the gameplay is frantic.
- Wednesday's opener was full of all those little traits viewers have come to equate with ITV drama: hammy acting, excruciating dialogue, stereotypes and ludicrous plots.
- You can feel the writers trying to create a new evil nemesis for Steed and the crew, and the surreal set designs and hammy acting by the lead bad guy more than makes up for the 1930s era tin man cyborgs.
Synonyms exaggerated, theatrical, ostentatious, actressy, stagy, showy, melodramatic, overacted, overdone, overripe, actorly, histrionic, affected, mannered, artificial, stilted, unreal, forced 2(of a hand or thigh) thick and solid. （手，大腿）结实粗壮的 he often pounds one hammy fist into the other Example sentencesExamples - Soon two large, hammy hands clamped down on his flailing fists and pulled him away, gasping and sputtering, his hair hanging in his face.
- ‘This is Shadowspirit, named after both his dam and sire,’ Lium said proudly, rubbing his hammy hand against the flanks of the huge horse nearest him.
- On a night of tidal emotions, the night when Beckham became a fetish, I found my hammy Irish fists jerking themselves convulsively upwards from my pressbox desk and towards the sky when Argentina went ahead.
- He felt a big, hammy hand land on his shoulder and tug him out of the chair, which toppled to the ground.
- His hammy hand did a roll-down motion and I engaged the power window on his side.
Derivativesadverb Her delivery is mannered: grandstanding effects punctuated by hammily deadpan understatement and coyly rhetorical pauses emerging from a face cosmeticized into a comic mask. Example sentencesExamples - Bulldog was just stupid and hammily overplayed.
- Unfortunately, what Cecil offers seems little better - it's little more than an episodic series of hammily acted altercations between his shrill cast and various bemused multiplex employees and film producers.
- The Television Without Pity recapper seems to think the father is played too hammily, but I thought the point was to show a certain kind of father who intentionally hams it up, which I find endearing.
- Even when Bird ramps up the wattage, as on the hammily Beatle-esque ‘Opposite Day’ and the grandly theatrical ‘The Naming of Things,’ Eggs rarely causes a fuss.
noun Carlyle didn't take much persuading to make a cameo appearance, and the resultant sketch - on the set of a war movie - is a riot of hamminess, spitting and bad German pronunciation. Example sentencesExamples - The modern American actor is terrified of seeming a ham, even when hamminess is called for.
- Usually hamminess in R & J is reserved for Mercutio, and with good reason; we need to like Mercutio particularly, we need to appreciate him, because he's the first one to die.
- The story of lonely video-dater Julian and his cabaret-singing, sequin-wearing alter ego Joyce is told without hamminess or too much camp - although hugely funny, Venus Rooms is also moving, delicate and truly poignant.
- With a solid cast, respected director and the well-publicised loan of 30 Marks & Spencer suits for the cast during the run, hamminess, togas and thickly applied make-up have no place in this production.
Rhymeschamois, clammy, gammy, Grammy, jammy, mammae, mammee, Miami, ramie, rammy, Sammy, shammy, whammy Definition of hammy in US English: hammyadjectiveˈhamēˈhæmi informal (of acting or an actor) exaggerated or overly theatrical. 〈非正式〉（表演，演员）过火的，夸张的 there is some hammy acting 有一些夸张的表演。 Example sentencesExamples - Look beyond the ancient effects and hammy acting, however, and you'll find reflected on the movie the familiar gaze of innocent eyes.
- Autobiography used to be the preserve of hammy actors, gammy lieutenant commanders and superannuated hangers-on to the Bloomsbury Group.
- The voice acting is deliberately hammy, the sound effects are loud and intrusive and the gameplay is frantic.
- Other reviews of Star Trek II - The Wrath Of Khan I've read on the Internet have commented on its melodramatics and its hammy acting.
- His speech was a lamentable effort - nothing about it was convincing, from the hammy acting to the misfired soundbites.
- You can feel the writers trying to create a new evil nemesis for Steed and the crew, and the surreal set designs and hammy acting by the lead bad guy more than makes up for the 1930s era tin man cyborgs.
- Wolfgang Koch sings with well-focussed richness as Peter, the son driven to an excess of hammy acting by Eva's desertion.
- It's hard now to see the lame special effects and hammy acting of Star Trek without giggling to myself.
- The acting was hammy, the jokes were forced, and the entire thing came across like a high school play - actors overdoing everything in cringe-worthy performances.
- They used hammy actors to ‘reconstruct’ the alleged plot, with sinister characters smearing a dark substance on door handles.
- It would be hard, for example, for someone playing Bottom (John Ramm, in this case) to preen and swagger, when showing off his hammy acting, if he is barefoot, as was the entire cast here.
- If you can put yourself in a mental place to enjoy this completely flawed but eminently watchable sci-fi homage, you will be rewarded with clever twists, enjoyably hammy acting, and great footage of a stunning woman in her prime.
- Sadly, the acting is never hammy enough to be enjoyable and the sets are well constructed just enough to be convincing.
- This disc escapes the electric chair only due to the judge's fascination with William Shatner's hammy acting.
- Which singer will die next and have his dumb musician's problems re-enacted by a hammy actor who wants an Oscar really bad?
- While the films are plagued by poorly developed plots and hammy acting, the fight sequences are excellent in that they reveal the true roots of Jackie's training.
- However, the consistently bad dialogue, expensive set design and knowingly hammy acting lifts it almost to pastiche level.
- Wednesday's opener was full of all those little traits viewers have come to equate with ITV drama: hammy acting, excruciating dialogue, stereotypes and ludicrous plots.
- Ropey dialogue and hammy acting abound, and Zombie seems in no hurry to wind up the proceedings as the film starts to feel interminable.
- How are you supposed to follow the story when you're constantly making sarcastic comments about the hammy acting?
Synonyms exaggerated, theatrical, ostentatious, actressy, stagy, showy, melodramatic, overacted, overdone, overripe, actorly, histrionic, affected, mannered, artificial, stilted, unreal, forced
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