0 used to describe an actor or acting that is unnatural and uses too much emotion: --
a hammy performance
He realized how hammy he was.
Tidy and concise, clocking in at 43 minutes, it favors the diminutive gesture to the cloying, hammy affectation that derailed so much of his prior discography.
The acting was hammy and unconvincing.
Hammy had learned to fly before the war.
My accent is pretty hammy.
Echegaray filled it with elaborate stage instructions that illuminate what we would now consider a hammy style of acting popular in the 19th century.
However, he was turned off by some of the hammy dialogue.
Hammy finds that golf can be used to destroy stuff, and decides to use it to cause mischief.
