campily

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English

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Etymology

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From campy +‎ -ly.

Adverb

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campily (comparative more campily, superlative most campily)

  1. In a campy manner.
    • 2012, Todd J. Ormsbee, The Meaning of Gay: Interaction, Publicity, and Community among Homosexual Men in 1960s San Francisco, page 68:
      CN also included a mock spread titled “Heterosexuality in America,” campily dismissing and rejecting the power of LIFE to depict their lives.