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Meanings of rigmarole in English
Spanish
galimatías Catalan
galimaties Synonyms
Examples for "rigamarole"
Examples for "rigamarole"
1
The rule had to go through years of rigamarole, including public comment.
2
I don't even scratch the surface of this rigamarole about The Guide.
3
Part two of the birds-and-bees rigamarole was special: a film instead of filmstrip.
4
The warden recited a mouthful of legal rigamarole, checked the clock, and frowned.
5
Now he spoke a rigamarole in Spanish which had been taught him by rote.
Usage of rigmarole in English
1
The flapper had paused in her breathless rigmarole of Johns and memories.
2
This is the rigmarole he got off to me the other day.
3
I understand the character without all that rigmarole and that romantic history.
4
The Oscars has turned into much more of a rigmarole than necessary.
5
He was great in dreams, portents, et id genus omne of rigmarole.
6
Nastasia Philipovna's reply to this long rigmarole astonished both the friends considerably.
7
After a rigmarole of Roman history and Augustus Caesar, he proceeded thus:--
8
In what way thought you that a lawyer listened to your rigmarole?'
9
Who is going to be made wiser or happier by this rigmarole?
10
What's the good of studying Latin and Greek, and all that rigmarole?
11
That's part of the rigmarole to go to work these days.
12
It was quite a rigmarole, but we had always planned to move overseas.
13
We assume this is the usual rigmarole of international copyright negotiations.
14
Why do you have to go through this rigmarole? he said.
15
The roundsman did not try to grasp the inner significance of this rigmarole.
16
The whole rigmarole of police and police-cells and formalities seemed insincere.
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Rigmarole across language varieties
United Kingdom
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