carnivalesque
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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“It kills me how out of touch Cuomo is,” she said, dressed in black leggings and taking pictures with her pink iPhone of the carnivalesque “No Kings” rally.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2025
Martin Scorsese combines archival footage with fresh interviews and tall tales to paint a mostly factual portrait of the carnivalesque tour launched by Bob Dylan in 1975.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 11, 2024
But in the following weeks and then years, I saw an entire country buy into that carnivalesque rhetoric, that bandwagon of "dwarves and dancers," as we said at the time, and bring it into government.
From Salon ● Jun. 18, 2023
As the rules proliferated, they risked eroding the central appeal of live-streamed shopping: the entertaining, carnivalesque atmosphere.
From New York Times ● Apr. 28, 2023
The Florentines at any rate spend no more money nor faith on the carnivalesque.
From Italian Hours by James, Henry
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