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
Food trucks, games, a band and balloons made the atmosphere carnivalesque.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 27, 2024
The critic who called the ’93 Biennial “a theme park of the oppressed” got one thing right: It did have a carnivalesque, even scrappy mood, artists doing what they could to fight for their lives.
From New York Times ● Dec. 27, 2023
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
He was engaged at Palermo during the Carnival season of 1822, and on the last night the audience attended the theatre, inspired by the most riotous spirit of carnivalesque revelry.
From Great Singers, Second Series Malibran To Titiens by George T. (George Titus) Ferris
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