saturnalia
Example Sentences
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The riot may have been a saturnalia of stupid, but we need to take it seriously.
From Salon • Oct. 28, 2022
The natural richness of this region and the willingness of Western governments to bankroll his regime have enabled Zaire's President to indulge in an uninterrupted saturnalia of misrule and kleptomania.
From Time Magazine Archive
It's now possible to try to reconstruct their motivations--a task made more urgent by the saturnalia of lawmaking under way.
From Time Magazine Archive
In her great days, Mae West was a one-woman saturnalia.
From Time Magazine Archive
There were voices of men, women, and children,—cries and calls of quadrupeds,—each according to its own kind, all mingled together in what might have been taken for some nocturnal saturnalia of the Desert.
From The Boy Slaves by Reid, Mayne
