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Rigmarole

noun
1.
A set of confused and meaningless statements.  Synonym: rigamarole.
2.
A long and complicated and confusing procedure.  Synonym: rigamarole.





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"Rigmarole" Quotes from Famous Books



... Philopatris, which is the work of an author of the fourth century, Critias is introduced pale and wild. His friend asks him if he has seen Cerberus or Hecate; and he answers that he has heard a rigmarole from certain "thrice-cursed sophists"; which he thinks would drive him mad if he heard it again, and was nearly sending him headlong over some cliff as it was. He retires for relief with his inquirer to a pleasant place, shadowed by planes, where swallows and nightingales ...
— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 03 • Various
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... glass in it, dropped nervelessly at her side. "If he uttered one single syllable of all that rigmarole, then Ollendorf is a myth, that's all I ...
— Penelope's Postscripts • Kate Douglas Wiggin
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... that she knew what she was a-saying of. He questioned her fiercely, but there was nothing to be got out of her rigmarole account, which Fenwick cut short by retreating into the studio ...
— Fenwick's Career • Mrs. Humphry Ward
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Words linked to "Rigmarole" :   nonsensicality, hokum, rigamarole, process, nonsense, procedure, bunk, meaninglessness


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