carny
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The man is rhapsodically shameless—oafishly charismatic, memorably strange-looking—a cynic at heart, and a carny in spirit.
From Slate ● Jun. 11, 2026
Once out of the carny racket, McCurdy became more famous in death than he had been in life.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 4, 2025
I’m a carny, and I’ve left the tent.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 20, 2023
The story, which takes place in the late 1930s/early 1940s, is one of make-believe; it is set in the carny world where the wonders are, of course, not what they seem.
From Salon ● Dec. 18, 2021
How he just gave up and got a nice little white cottage some place and got a nice little low-paying job and lived unhappily ever after, because a carny isn't a healthy, well-adjusted life?
From Charley de Milo by Laurence M. Janifer
His principled defense of free speech shouldn’t preclude him from excluding the cranks and carnies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025
His follow-up, “Nightmare Alley,” is a bleak tale of carnies, grifters and a dishonest society that creates a far more despairing portrait of the world.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 17, 2021
“The carnies know they’re carnies,” del Toro told me.
From New York Times ● Dec. 15, 2021
Not obviously with actors because we're basically shiftless carnies you know.
From Fox News ● Oct. 22, 2019
The crowd, ostensibly, was learning about this through games administered by confused carnies.
From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2014
