as in carnival
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Recent Examples of carnivalesque
Nicolay understands the industry’s highs and lows, having been a member of the Hold Steady, a rock band known for its elaborate storytelling, and of the carnivalesque punk band the World/Inferno Friendship Society.
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Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2024
In Rocky Horror, Brad and Janet are our straight couple and Frank-N-Furter is the Freak-in-Chief overseeing a house full of carnivalesque characters.
—Fran Tirado, Them, 15 Oct. 2024
In one instance, the permeation of real and carnivalesque, true and false, amateur and professional in Avignon reduced me to rubble.
—Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 25 July 2024
Afterwards, drive over to Santa Monica to walk around the carnivalesque pier and savor your final moments at Venice Beach, paying a visit to the skate park and ogling at all of the amazing tricks.
—Christina Liao, Vogue, 17 June 2024
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Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2024
In Rocky Horror, Brad and Janet are our straight couple and Frank-N-Furter is the Freak-in-Chief overseeing a house full of carnivalesque characters.
—Fran Tirado, Them, 15 Oct. 2024
In one instance, the permeation of real and carnivalesque, true and false, amateur and professional in Avignon reduced me to rubble.
—Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 25 July 2024
Afterwards, drive over to Santa Monica to walk around the carnivalesque pier and savor your final moments at Venice Beach, paying a visit to the skate park and ogling at all of the amazing tricks.
—Christina Liao, Vogue, 17 June 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for carnivalesque
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Customers at Starbucks will be introduced to a new interface with a carnival-style wheel.—
Anna Kaufman,
USA TODAY,
30 Mar. 2023
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The Square has spooky carnival-style games.—
Annie Alleman,
Chicago Tribune,
12 Sep. 2022
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The riotous dancing is, for the attendees, those lucky few, a salve on life’s burn.—
Dwight Garner,
New York Times,
20 Jan. 2025
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But if season 1 was Fleabag's hilarious, fourth-wall-breaking race to her life's nadir, season 2 brings us her glorious and riotous redemption.—
EW.com,
EW.com,
19 Feb. 2025
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In any event Marshall, a craven idiot, is a raucous, vulgar sendup of the bedrock American principle of Manifest Destiny.—
Tom Gliatto,
People.com,
7 Mar. 2025
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Pedro Pascal, Ben Mendelsohn and Jay Ellis co star in this raucous LSD-like trip from two filmmakers who know this turf and that era ever so well – Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden.—
Randy Myers,
The Mercury News,
7 Mar. 2025
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There’s an over-the-top and overdressed fish out of water (me), a raffish Englishmen homesick for Great Britain (my husband Aidan, who will be mortified to read any of this), and an ensemble of quirky characters.—
Mosha Lundström Halbert,
Vogue,
20 Dec. 2024
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The sun was setting, leaving a band of neon orange clinging to the horizon; around us, raffish cliques sipped esoteric cocktails, shared platters of roast chicken, flitted between languages, and seemed, to my eyes, immune to worldly stress.—
David Amsden,
Travel + Leisure,
14 May 2024
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The firebrand German director now blasts the cobwebs off Chekhov with boisterous, dazzling delight.—
Demetrios Matheou,
The Hollywood Reporter,
7 Mar. 2025
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Current Evans High boys players may not know much about Darryl Dawkins and the boisterous basketball days that left his indelible mark on the sport — and backboards.—
Buddy Collings,
Orlando Sentinel,
3 Mar. 2025
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“Carnivalesque.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/carnivalesque. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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