Associations to the word «Rigmarole»

Wiktionary

RIGMAROLE, noun. Complex, obsolete procedures; excess steps or activity; needless motion.
RIGMAROLE, noun. Nonsense; confused and incoherent talk.

Dictionary definition

RIGMAROLE, noun. A set of confused and meaningless statements.
RIGMAROLE, noun. A long and complicated and confusing procedure; "all that academic rigmarole was a waste of time".

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne