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hammily

hammily adverb: in a hammy manner.

Adverb

hammily (comparative more hammily, superlative most hammily)

  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

Forms of hammily

comparativemore hammily
superlativemost hammily

Origin of hammily

From hammy + -ly.

Questions about hammily

What does hammily mean?
Hammily means in a hammy manner.
What part of speech is hammily?
Hammily is an adverb.

Words near hammily in the dictionary

  1. hammier
  2. hammies
  3. hammiest
  4. Hammill
  5. Hammills
  6. hammily
  7. hamminess
  8. hamming
  9. Hamming code
  10. Hamming codes
  11. Hamming distance

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