rigmarole
Example Sentences
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Lee recounts a rigmarole of joys and traumas—a trip to the circus, a bad breakup, a house fire—which all fail to leave much of an impression.
From Slate • Jun. 11, 2026
What retirement experts have found is that the rigmarole around retirement is really about human behavior.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 10, 2026
She said she has trouble with computers and requested a paper test, but that led to a whole additional rigmarole.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 7, 2023
"I was a journalist for 20 years and I can spot marketing rigmarole and a contrived script. You have to be your crude, authentic self to attract your audience."
From BBC • Apr. 17, 2023
Lancelot, with an uncontrollable desire to get some of his misery off his chest by telling about it—and yet unable to tell the true story to this particular listener—began a long rigmarole about Elaine.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
Vocabulary lists containing rigmarole
Boy: Tales of Childhood
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"Home" by Anton Chekhov
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