Circusy

Well, maybe it is kind of circusy, but not in a lions and bears way. ❋ Marina Geigert (2007)

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. ❋ Ann Althouse (2007)

"circusy" manner in which he had entered the room. ❋ Victor [pseud.] Appleton (N/A)

And yes, there's a risk that the trial will deteriorate into a more circusy spectacle in New York than it would otherwise devolve. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I ought to take a shot, inside the circusy frame, and post it here. ❋ Michael Evans (2006)

The food is top-notch, and the decor—billowing silk in shades of burned yellow and red—is circusy and elegant. ❋ Peter Alson (2006)

I suggested colors in vegetable dyes to make the dogs a little more circusy. ❋ Miss Snark (2006)

I agree that their baba gannouj is THE best, and it does indeed do circusy things in the mouth. ❋ Lisa B. (2006)

I'm never one to pass up a reasonably priced piece of art involving anything vaguely freakish or circusy. ❋ Gwenda (2003)

He tries not to use the term "unicycle" anymore: too circusy. ❋ Unknown (1997)

There was a delightfully circusy smell of oils and sawdust and hay and animals pervading the air. ❋ Lebbeus Mitchell (1921)

I'm inclined to be a little circusy in my notions. ❋ Holman Day (1900)

Small zemindars from outlying villages are bringing their wives and daughters to the festivities at the Kootub in circusy-looking bullock-chariots covered with gilt and carvings, and draped and twined with parti-colored ribbons. ❋ Thomas Stevens (1894)

Here are lots of circusy heroes coming home to rest after their fatigues. ❋ George Meredith (1868)

In the late 90s he scored a minor hit as a member of a circusy troupe of musicians and actors called Farofa Carioca, and in 2002 he released his first solo album, Carolina (Mr. Bongo), an amped-up collection of funky sambas a la Jorge Ben. ❋ Unknown (2010)