carnivalesque

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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 result is part carnivalesque caricature and part generic smiley face.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 6, 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

He hung about the caf� until groups returning from the Closerie in every variety of carnivalesque costume had filled it with a noisy company.

From Mated from the Morgue A tale of the Second Empire by O'Shea, John Augustus