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  • adjective superlative form of hammy: most hammy.

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Examples

  • It was a race to see who could act the hammiest and most obnoxious last nite: Claire, Sylar and Matt Parkman.

    'Heroes' recap: The good, the bad, and the really bad | EW.com 2009

  • One of those songs that was on the radio all. the.time when I was a teenager and still listened to the radio, and so I know all the words and can sing along in my hammiest overwrought fashion.

    iTunes and I « Gin&Comment 2009

  • It was a tacky and sexist episode (one of Shatner's hammiest performances ever), but that last scene was just made for Hillary.

    In North Carolina Victory Speech, Obama Congratulates Hillary For Indiana Win 2009

  • One of the phoniest most cynical hammiest and to me irritating Poltiically Correct songs of all time done by a bunch of no-talent white boys...and this dj is getting all misty.

    Archive 2008-07-01 Ed Gorman 2008

  • One of the phoniest most cynical hammiest and to me irritating Poltiically Correct songs of all time done by a bunch of no-talent white boys...and this dj is getting all misty.

    Michael Connelly; Casey Kasem; Teen Angel; First Line Ed Gorman 2008

  • She's one of Woody's great creations, a larger than life figure who is compelled to transform every moment of her offstage life into a drama worthy of the hammiest theater.

    Archive 2008-06-01 Ed Howard 2008

  • She's one of Woody's great creations, a larger than life figure who is compelled to transform every moment of her offstage life into a drama worthy of the hammiest theater.

    Bullets Over Broadway Ed Howard 2008

  • The memory of the Holocaust ought to increase our scepticism about politicians: instead we have to suffer Tony Blair on the evening news employing his hammiest just-choking-back-the-tears voice to point the moral lessons he wants us to learn.

    Archive 2005-01-01 2005

  • The memory of the Holocaust ought to increase our scepticism about politicians: instead we have to suffer Tony Blair on the evening news employing his hammiest just-choking-back-the-tears voice to point the moral lessons he wants us to learn.

    January 2005 2005

  • When they tell her no, she goes into the hammiest pleading ever... fortunately, to no avail.

    "American Idol" goes to NYC. Ann Althouse 2007

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