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- adjective Reminiscent of a
circus .
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Examples
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I have been by that building many times and I understand how you would call it and some of his designs like the ones in Denver as "circusy" but it is pretty cool how that building was placed right in the middle of all those other buildings at MIT.
Suing the architect. Ann Althouse 2007
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Well, maybe it is kind of circusy, but not in a lions and bears way.
Dzing! went the strings of my heart Marina Geigert 2007
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"circusy" manner in which he had entered the room.
Tom Swift in Captivity, or a Daring Escape By Airship Victor [pseud.] Appleton
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And yes, there's a risk that the trial will deteriorate into a more circusy spectacle in New York than it would otherwise devolve.
Adam Hanft: Quakers and Shakers: Giuliani and Paterson Unlikely Bedfellows in the Axis of Anxiety 2009
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I ought to take a shot, inside the circusy frame, and post it here.
View from the Northern Border Michael Evans 2006
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The food is top-notch, and the decor—billowing silk in shades of burned yellow and red—is circusy and elegant.
TAKE ME TO THE RIVER Peter Alson 2006
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I suggested colors in vegetable dyes to make the dogs a little more circusy.
Archive 2006-04-02 Miss Snark 2006
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I agree that their baba gannouj is THE best, and it does indeed do circusy things in the mouth.
The return of Reviews You Can Use Lisa B. 2006
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The food is top-notch, and the decor—billowing silk in shades of burned yellow and red—is circusy and elegant.
TAKE ME TO THE RIVER Peter Alson 2006
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I'm never one to pass up a reasonably priced piece of art involving anything vaguely freakish or circusy.
Archive 2003-11-01 Gwenda 2003
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