rigmarole

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1) A long and complicated procedure that seems tiresome or pointless; seemingly unnecessary hoops.
 * 2) Nonsense; confused and incoherent talk.
 * 3) * 1880,, A Blighted Life, sxn 4:
 * 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.
 * 1) * 1880,, A Blighted Life, sxn 4:
 * 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.
 * 1) * 1880,, A Blighted Life, sxn 4:
 * 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.
 * 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.

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Adjective

 * 1) Prolix; tedious.