What a rigmarole!
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Rigmarole
//ˈɹɪɡməɹəʊl//
Synonyms for "rigmarole" (219 found)
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Closest matches (44)
Strong matches (66)
Related words (109)
Noun(63 words)
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23 translations across 10 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- празни приказки noun (nonsense talk)
Dutch
1 entries- gezwets noun (nonsense talk)
Finnish
1 entries- ruljanssi noun (long, tedious and complicated formal procedure)
French
2 entries- charabia noun (nonsense talk)
- imbroglio noun (long, tedious and complicated formal procedure)
German
4 entries- Brimborium noun (long, tedious and complicated formal procedure)
- Geschwätz noun (nonsense talk)
- Palaver noun (nonsense talk)
- Theater noun (long, tedious and complicated formal procedure)
Italian
4 entries- sproloquio noun (nonsense talk)
- tiritera noun (long, tedious and complicated formal procedure)
- tiritera noun (nonsense talk)
- trafila noun (long, tedious and complicated formal procedure)
Polish
2 entries- ceregiele noun (long, tedious and complicated formal procedure)
- dyrdymała noun (nonsense talk)
Russian
4 entries- брехня́ noun (nonsense talk)
- вздор noun (nonsense talk)
- волоки́та noun (long, tedious and complicated formal procedure)
- каните́ль noun (long, tedious and complicated formal procedure)
Sicilian
2 entries- nimma noun (nonsense talk)
- straparrata noun (nonsense talk)
Spanish
1 entries- embrollo noun (long, tedious and complicated formal procedure)
Sample sentences
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Have you seen all the rigmarole you have to go through at airport security these days?
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Often one's dear friend talks something which one scruples to call rigmarole.
Source: wiktionary
While you are planting the seed, he cries -- "Drop it, drop it -- cover it up, cover it up -- pull it up, pull it up, pull it up." But this was not corn, and so it was safe from such enemies as he. You may wonder what his rigmarole, his amateur Paganini performances on one string or on twenty, have to do with your planting, and yet prefer it to leached ashes or plaster.
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