rigmarole

English Thesaurus

1. a long and complicated and confusing procedure (noun.act)

hypernym	:	procedure, process,
definition	:	a particular course of action intended to achieve a result (noun.act)

2. a set of confused and meaningless statements (noun.communication)

hypernym	:	bunk, hokum, meaninglessness, nonsense, nonsensicality,
definition	:	a message that seems to convey no meaning (noun.communication)