variants
also rigamarole
as in gobbledygook
language marked by abstractions, jargon, euphemisms, and circumlocutions
the security guard gave me some kind of rigmarole about passes and authorizations
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Recent Examples of rigmarole
So there are all those questions and rigmarole.
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Jordan Moreau, Variety, 24 Sep. 2025
No rigamarole or bureaucracy to navigate.
—Andy Meek, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025
The bust was followed by months of prolonged legal rigmarole.
—John Semley, Rolling Stone, 19 Apr. 2025
Editors’ Picks Our Favorite Bathrooms Kermit has been through the graduation rigmarole before.
—Callie Holtermann, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for rigmarole
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Meaningless gobbledygook to an outsider, yet powerful to those who know how to wield those sounds properly.—
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Bob Kring DeBary Congressional bill is full of greed The Great Big Beautiful Bill reads like 950 pages of of gobbledygook distilled into four words: Greedy, stingy, mean and short-sighted.—
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This reform effort did not emerge from academic theory or ceremonial Sunshine Week rhetoric.—
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Corey Perry, a newcomer to the team, is already fitting right in with his rhetoric.—
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Vril and Agartha have thrived in part because of the way the editors mix brainrot and bigotry, disguising their ideological assaults in the fried fog of GifTok rap gibberish.—
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The strategy always involves the same ingredients: The message, called the plaintext, gets distorted (the encryption) so that anybody who intercepts it sees only garbled gibberish (the ciphertext).—
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The fuzzy shearling interior and buttery soft suede outer is worth all the hype, and the chestnut hue goes with legit everything.—
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The draft discussion around Manning never quite matched the hype heights typically scaled by the top quarterbacks in the class.—
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Driving the news: The statement was published only in English on the Facebook page of the Israeli Prime Minister's Office — potentially another case of double-talk by Netanyahu.—
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The GOP Senate candidate in Arizona, whose brand is a combative, never-back-down MAGA politics, has adopted a position on the issue that is nearly indistinguishable from that of double-talking Democrats.—
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Just stop with this whole song and dance between Kuminga and Steve Kerr.—
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The Shakers, as they’ll eventually be named, channel the holy spirit via song and dance.—
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“Rigmarole.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rigmarole. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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