Definition of freak show
: an exhibition (such as a sideshow) featuring freaks of nature
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Now, the Phantom runs a circus-like freak show on New York’s Coney Island.
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Around a corner, a visitor comes face-to-face with artifacts from a freak show that was part of the Sells-Floto Circus a century ago.
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The thrill never dies Finding actors who could sing opera tinged with rock and fill out a freak show was an especially fun nightmare.
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Nunberg's tour de force evoked the many cable news freak shows from Carter Page, a foreign policy adviser now deeply embroiled in The Russian Connection.
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The premise of freak show, that the fringe operated outside the normal workings of American politics, has decayed over the years.
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No one reading this publication is interested in the incredibly ugly, vile and vapid Kardashian pig turd and her circus freak show life.
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The hawker is always full of pompous boasts — lies — and the freak show behind him is sad and disappointing.
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Conservatives who are real conservatives don’t ape the social-justice left and make politics a daily freak show.
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