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freak show
noun
- a display of people or animals with unusual or grotesque physical features, as at a circus or carnival sideshow.
- any ludicrous, bizarre, or dehumanizing occasion, function, performance, etc.; grotesque, circuslike event:
endless interviews and auditions that became a ridiculous freak show.
Word History and Origins
Origin of freak show1
Example Sentences
In 2024, Democrats are making a similar argument but more forcibly: They’re pointing, laughing and dismissing Trump and his circus as a total freak show to which we can’t return.
The Republican freak show has gathered in Milwaukee this week to canonize and coronate Donald Trump, fresh off his felony conviction and a recent assassination attempt.
With Mr Trump, “it would be a freak show… no warden would allow it”, he said.
The food was “inedible”; the harassing guards viewed her as “a freak show to liven their shift.”
Rolling Stone reports that they're planning to turn the January 6 trial into a "MAGA freak show" based on the infamous Chicago 7 disruption strategy.
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