rigmarole
/ˈɹɪɡməɹoʊl/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.93 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Characterized by rigmarole; prolix; tedious.
Example Sentences
- "Have you seen all the rigmarole you have to go through at airport security these days?"
- "“Happy Father's Day! Birdhouse is coming along great. 'Course, the city inspector's riding me about zoning laws, and my electrician's putting me through the whole rigmarole.” “Steve, you've made peace with never being with a woman, right?” “Uh, yeah.”"
- "If you are alluding to Dostoevski’s worst novels, then, indeed, I dislike intensely The Karamazov Brothers and the ghastly Crime and Punishment rigmarole."
- "Often one's dear friend talks something which one scruples to call rigmarole."
- "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."
- "His reply did not even allude to the subject, but was a rigmarole about the weather; as if he had been writing to an idiot, who did not require a rational answer to any question they had asked."
Etymology
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈɹɪɡməɹoʊl/
- British English: /ˈɹɪɡməɹəʊl/