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sideshow

Noun

Meaning

a minor show that is part of a larger one (as at the circus)

a subordinate incident of little importance relative to the main event

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What passed for society was a loud, giddy whirl of thieves and pretentious hustlers, a dull sideshow full of quacks and clowns and philistines with gimp mentalities. Hunter S. Thompson

When you're a charmer the world applauds they don't know that secretly charmers feel like they're frauds When you're a charmer you hate yourself a victim of sideshow hypnosis like everyone else. Aimee Mann

When you're a charmer you hate yourself a victim of sideshow hypnosis like everyone else. Aimee Mann

When I first started dating my husband, I had this weird fascination with the circus and clowns and old carnival things and sideshow freaks and all that. About a month after we started dating, he bought me this amazing black-and-white photo book on the circus in the 1930s, and I started sobbing. Christina Hendricks

I've never related to the work geek at all-it sounds much more horrible than nerd. Like a freak biting a chicken's head off in a sideshow. Jonathan Lethem

Championing liberty begins at the local level. There is nothing more fundamental than the principle that a man's home is his castle. Donald Trump's career-long willingness to trample this right tells you everything you need to know about his bogus tea party sideshow. Michelle Malkin

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