0 used to describe an actor or acting that is unnatural and uses too much emotion:
a hammy performance
Occasionally, however, she comes close to caricature with a couple of very low notes at the end of cadenzas and some slightly hammy asides in the recitative.
Hammy is the most agile of the three, running swifter and jumping higher.
But this lent the programme a hammy, homemade charm.
Film was panned across the spectrum of reviewers for its tacky visuals and its actors hammy performance which didn't help the already amateurish screenplay.
He described the film as a sloppily scripted sandwich of hammy acting and cheesy dialogue that lacked the thrills of the previous films.
It seemed to me like an opportunity to be as over-the-top hammy as possible.
Hammy finds the camera in the meantime and claims it.
Hammy finds that golf can be used to destroy stuff, and decides to use it to cause mischief.
