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Definition of Rigmarole
1. Noun. A set of confused and meaningless statements.
2. Noun. A long and complicated and confusing procedure. "All that academic rigmarole was a waste of time"
Definition of Rigmarole
1. n. A succession of confused or nonsensical statements; foolish talk; nonsense.
2. a. Consisting of rigmarole; frovolous; nonsensical; foolish.
Definition of Rigmarole
1. Noun. Complex, obsolete procedures; excess steps or activity; needless motion. ¹
2. Noun. Nonsense; confused and incoherent talk. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Rigmarole
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rigmarole
Literary usage of Rigmarole
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Bookman's Budget by Austin Dobson (1917)
"rigmarole LANDOR, commenting on Humphry Clinker, seems to restrict ' rigmarole
... By rigmarole I mean such a termination as this : " It had like to have ..."
2. The Life of Charles Dickens by John Forster (1874)
"I repeat that the only morsel of truth in all this rigmarole is that the books
were sent by Dickens, and acknowledged by Mr. Helps at the Queen's desire. ..."
3. The Connoisseur by George Colman, B. Thornton (1904)
"All this rigmarole to prove that a knowledge of the world in clothes is essential
as a foot-note to morals and history, as a relish to belles lettres, ..."
4. The Monthly Review by Charles William Wason (1842)
"... mars the interest which one takes in any imaginative work. ART. XXIII.—Zachary
Cobble; a rigmarole in Rhyme. A MISERABLE attempt to imitate Butler. ..."
5. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1838)
"... us it were instantaneously, upon his understanding, instead of forcing him to
labor through the verbose full length rigmarole of the older method. ..."
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