carnivalesque
Britishadjective
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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
Food trucks, games, a band and balloons made the atmosphere carnivalesque.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 27, 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
The next day, the gathering turned more carnivalesque, with hawkers selling Elvis memorabilia as a procession of politicians and celebrities, including the singer James Brown, came to pay their respects.
From New York Times ● Jan. 22, 2023
This was the Saturday before the first Monday in August, and therefore the formal opening of Knype Wakes, the most carnivalesque of all the carnivals which enliven the four seasons in the Five Towns.
From Tales of the Five Towns by Arnold Bennett
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