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

But the style we chose for "Para Leer al Pato Donald" was as insolent, raucous and carnivalesque as the Chilean revolution itself.

From Salon • Dec. 9, 2023

The result is part carnivalesque caricature and part generic smiley face.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 6, 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