callithumpian

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for callithumpian
Adjective
  • 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
Adjective
  • 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
  • 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
Adjective
  • But the clothes themselves show plenty of personality under the false advertising; accordingly, Popov delivers a boisterous tale of a woman coming into her own, told with real humor and heart.
    Stephen Saito, Variety, 19 Mar. 2025
  • As the boisterous FreeCon meeting wound down, as people began to check phones for airline departures, there would have been a few holdouts of the absolutist sort — a few people who would refuse to sign a document acknowledging the Creator’s role in any benefaction whatsoever.
    Neal B. Freeman, National Review, 13 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • That doesn't mean audience members haven't gotten notably rowdy over the years, however.
    Raven Brunner, People.com, 21 Mar. 2025
  • Suddenly, all the noise was being made by the maroon-and-black side of the arena and the rowdy North Carolinians had lost their voice.
    Kyle Feldscher, CNN, 12 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • The estimate of $3 million is also believed to be remarkably conservative for the actual damages incurred by the riotous attack.
    Scott MacFarlane, CBS News, 24 Mar. 2025
  • The riotous dancing is, for the attendees, those lucky few, a salve on life’s burn.
    Dwight Garner, New York Times, 20 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • The movie is both exquisite and rumbustious, stylized and energized.
    Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 5 May 2022
  • 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
Adjective
  • Well before last year’s trial, the blocks surrounding the Superior Court in Dedham developed a carnivalesque atmosphere.
    Flint McColgan, Boston Herald, 20 Mar. 2025
  • Later that year, Spex leased a banquet hall in Ridgewood, Queens, that had oversize chandeliers and walls padded in kitschy diamond patterns and gave it a title befitting its carnivalesque interiors: the Dreamhouse.
    Coco Romack, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • This feels fitting for a company that aims to make people roll around with raucous laughter.
    Ollie Barder, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2025
  • The few Republican officials who have held town halls lately have faced raucous crowds.
    Laura J. Nelson, Los Angeles Times, 20 Mar. 2025
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“Callithumpian.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/callithumpian. Accessed 3 Apr. 2025.

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