NOUN
- a set of confused and meaningless statements
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a long and complicated and confusing procedure
all that academic rigmarole was a waste of time
How To Use rigamarole In A Sentence
- All that other rigamarole is just for those who cross in a car. Army checkpoints
- Apparently the whole security rigamarole was to stop him travelling abroad. Times, Sunday Times
- Analytic" is of course a nice term to be used whenever it's necessary to distinguish between mere emotional and instinctual artists and real thinkers -- the intellectually rigorous (and properly credentialed) "scholars" who can cut through all the artsy-fartsy rigamarole favored by the "creative" types and let us know what all cultural activites are finally really about. Literary Study
- For those of you, who like myself 6 years ago, have no idea about what kind of rigamarole getting a PhD involves, I thought I would break it down in a paragraph, as I did for my dad who emailed me the other night asking, "SO YOU ARE REALLY ALMOST DONE WITH THAT PHD? Academic Milestones ... and Hoops
- With the GOP and Lieberman already explicitly stating that they intend to delay health care legislation, why should we give him more than the allotted to give us the same ol 'rigamarole? MN GOP calls Franken-Lieberman incident an 'embarrassment'
- Analytic" is of course a nice term to be used whenever it's necessary to distinguish between mere emotional and instinctual artists and real thinkers -- the intellectually rigorous (and properly credentialed) "scholars" who can cut through all the artsy-fartsy rigamarole favored by the "creative" types and let us know what all cultural activites are finally really about. Literary Study
- EXAMPLE: Applying for an export license involved so much rigamarole that we became quite frustrated.
- Companies are sued just about every day and why put themselves through the rigamarole of a lawsuit when they can just do the right thing in most cases? Is Sony legally required to make its games accessible to disabled people? - Boing Boing
- Not sure if it makes you feel better, but I went through a near-identical rigamarole to get diagnosed with FMS 17 years ago. Health Care Costs Today
- Carol Marin's column yesterday described some of the characters in Emanuel's residency rigamarole, including attorney Burt Odelson. Is Rahm Emanuel Feuding With Cook County Democrats?