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hamming

[ UK /hˈæmɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
  1. poor acting by a ham actor

How To Use hamming In A Sentence

  • He does this without over-acting or hamming it up for the camera (something that many actors doing Shakespeare have a hard time avoiding).
  • One person's hamming up is another man's dramatic device and yet another man's (well, probably the same man's) way of getting the thing paid for and distributed.
  • Depends on how funny you think it is to see Williams hamming around in layers of latex.
  • Incredible to reflect, given his luvvy hamming as Capt. Picard, that Stewart does not say a word in either serial.
  • The animal will sometimes escape danger by shamming dead.
  • He has many strengths -- hamming it up is not one of them. Kevin Allen: The Brand-ification of Derrick Rose
  • The Generalized Hamming Weights (GHW) of linear codes characterize the cryptography performance of the code on the wire-tap channel of type two.
  • Perfect pictures of sunny days, birthday parties and proms, of boyfriends, girlfriends and parents all hamming it up for the camera were as abundant as the yellow stickies that plastered his desk back at the precinct.
  • It was a great variety show with top notch actors and entertainers doing what they do best - hamming it up.
  • Some atavistic instinct told her that shamming death was her only protection. MIDNIGHT IS A LONELY PLACE
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