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saturnalia

[sat-er-ney-lee-uh, -neyl-yuh] / ˌsæt ərˈneɪ li ə, -ˈneɪl yə /


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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

But to the zealous guardsmen the party was saturnalia run amuck, and so they reported to their commanding officer, who alerted the military at Malaga.

From Time Magazine Archive

In 1930-31, for instance, steamship lines began running week-end cruises, or saturnalia, outside the Twelve Mile Limit.

From Time Magazine Archive

In a music-hall saturnalia of honky-tonk pianos, white masks and silent movie captions, the late great German playwright fashioned a prophetically dramatic exercise in brainwashing.

From Time Magazine Archive

What had been a joyous bacchanal had degenerated into a horrid saturnalia.

From The Whirligig of Time by Williams, Wayland Wells




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