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Meanings of rigmarole in English

Spanish
galimatías
Catalan
galimaties

A long and complicated and confusing procedure.

        galimatías
        Usage of rigmarole in English
        1
        The flapper had paused in her breathless rigmarole of Johns and memories.
        A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago
        2
        This is the rigmarole he got off to me the other day.
        The Golden Road
        3
        I understand the character without all that rigmarole and that romantic history.
        My Double Life: The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt
        4
        The Oscars has turned into much more of a rigmarole than necessary.
        The Guardian
        5
        He was great in dreams, portents, et id genus omne of rigmarole.
        The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 3
        6
        Nastasia Philipovna's reply to this long rigmarole astonished both the friends considerably.
        The Idiot
        7
        After a rigmarole of Roman history and Augustus Caesar, he proceeded thus:--
        Famous Americans of Recent Times
        8
        In what way thought you that a lawyer listened to your rigmarole?'
        Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor
        9
        Who is going to be made wiser or happier by this rigmarole?
        The Malady of the Century
        10
        What's the good of studying Latin and Greek, and all that rigmarole?
        Risen from the Ranks; Or, Harry Walton's Success
        11
        That's part of the rigmarole to go to work these days.
        Radio NZ
        12
        It was quite a rigmarole, but we had always planned to move overseas.
        The South African
        13
        We assume this is the usual rigmarole of international copyright negotiations.
        Wired
        14
        Why do you have to go through this rigmarole? he said.
        Reuters
        15
        The roundsman did not try to grasp the inner significance of this rigmarole.
        One Wonderful Night: A Romance of New York
        16
        The whole rigmarole of police and police-cells and formalities seemed insincere.
        The Old Wives' Tale
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        Catalan
        galimaties
        Rigmarole through the time
        Rigmarole across language varieties
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