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

Molly learns a passel of thinpgs in this surrealist, carnivalesque bildungsroman.

From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2024

Food trucks, games, a band and balloons made the atmosphere carnivalesque.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 27, 2024

Most of the time, there was a warm, carnivalesque atmosphere, but a crowd’s mood can also change at the speed of light.

From New York Times • Mar. 9, 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