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Adjective
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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 -
The Square has spooky carnival-style games.—
Annie Alleman,
Chicago Tribune,
12 Sep. 2022
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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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Encouraged by its best-ever result, with 20% of the vote, and boosted by the boisterous support of Elon Musk and others in the Trump Administration, the AfD is waiting in the wings.—
John Kampfner,
TIME,
24 Feb. 2025
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If Nix’s first season was any indication, the Broncos have backed up Payton’s boisterous claim of a year ago.—
Nick Kosmider,
The Athletic,
24 Feb. 2025
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Trump’s reelection was a high-water mark for the rowdy rightwing politics and culture that CPAC has long nurtured, and he was treated like a conquering hero during his speech on Saturday.—
Zac Anderson,
USA TODAY,
27 Feb. 2025
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The cheapest tickets are in the supporter section, where rowdy fans will be cheering, chanting and standing for the whole game.—
Kate Murphy,
Axios,
27 Feb. 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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There was not the same quality of opposition, but given what was at stake, the riotous procession of four uninterrupted goals basked the ground in belief.—
Beren Cross,
The Athletic,
16 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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The movie is both exquisite and rumbustious, stylized and energized.—
Richard Brody,
The New Yorker,
5 May 2022
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From 1657, when tea first became available in London’s coffeehouses, to the early seventeen-hundreds, when women were invited in, recreational tea drinking was the preserve of rumbustious gentlemen.—
David Kortava,
The New Yorker,
17 Dec. 2021
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As usual for Bong, unexpected music choices liven things up, from quirky waltzes to carnivalesque riffs in a Danny Elfman mode.—
David Rooney,
The Hollywood Reporter,
15 Feb. 2025
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The vendors included a sculptor, a florist and a woman selling odd jewelry that included animal bones turned into pendants, and other gory pieces reminiscent of the carnivalesque aspects of Victorian times.—
Luis Giraldo,
CBS News,
14 Feb. 2025
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The result was a raucous and at times sentimental at television's most famous comedy hour.—
Anna Kaufman,
USA TODAY,
22 Feb. 2025
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Image As for other noise, sports-watching venues across Canada were raucous.—
Vjosa Isai,
New York Times,
22 Feb. 2025
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“Callithumpian.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/callithumpian. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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