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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Christopher Plummer is great too as a hammy , Shakespeare-spouting Klingon warlord.
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Now, in the television ads, he cheerfully delivered some hammy lines before falling backwards into a swimming pool.
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The film, although hammy in places, will certainly stimulate interest in engineering among school leavers.
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There is some hammy acting, but the film gives an interesting insight into the gangster scene of the Sixties.