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  • adjective superlative form of camp: most camp.

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Examples

  • However, in contrast to the matronly manner of Jenni Murray, the Woman's House presenter, the show will also feature Louie Spence - described as the campest man on TV - as a regular fixture.

    Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010

  • Amusingly, i've always seen Petyr as the 'campest' character in the books, with his sarcasm and mock emotions - kinda bitchy queen like, but obviously not gay.

    Who are you most looking forward to seeing? 2009

  • There were five of them in total with one of them being perhaps the 'campest' man in South America.

    TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2010

  • Perched atop the lot: a shiny little rucksack, new and urban, tiny as a clutch-bag, the campest thing I've seen since I bumped into two middle-aged male gamblers coming out of Celine Dion's Vegas show together, humming My Heart Will Go On.

    Face it, we all look dire on holiday | Victoria Coren 2011

  • It was most certainly the campest, and possibly the most spectacular, opening to any Brit awards, the boys took to the stage flanked by Take That soldiers, who by the end of the performance were only in their underwear.

    Brit awards 2011: Take That win best British group 21 years after their debut 2011

  • You can tour the ruins – excavated in 1888 by Joseph Whitaker, another marsala-trading Brit – and a museum includes a fifth-century BC statue of what must be the campest young man of the ancient world.

    A Sicilian opening in the wild west 2011

  • She mentally filed it away as the campest thing she'd ever seen.

    William Hague could learn from Robbie Williams 2010

  • When chef Aiden Byrne departed the Dorchester Grill, leaving behind the campest dining room in London – the murals of strapping men in kilts tossing their cabers, and the tartan upholstered chairs redefined the term Gay Gordons – it was assumed he would open a fine dining restaurant.

    The 20 best places to eat in Britain this summer 2010

  • Shots eZine, Mike Ripley's Column April 2007: "I never realised until the other day that my all-time favourite (and campest) Viking film, The Long Ships, was co-scripted by thriller-writer and former Chairman of the Crime Writers Association, Berkely Mather."

    Archive 2007-04-22 Bill Crider 2007

  • If only the same could be said about Ian Watkins who, on hearing his name called out, immediately turned into the shriekiest campest children's television presenter in the world and took the Celebrity Big Brother interview as an opportunity to indulge himself in a display of world-class simpering so Herculean that all the buttons on his shirt popped off as a protest.

    Shilpa Shetty Wants You To Be Her Boyfriend, More Or Less 2007

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