rigmarolish
adjUS /ɹɪɡməɹoʊlɪʃ/
Etymology From rigmarole + -ish.
1
Of or pertaining to a rigmarole; excessively elaborate, protracted, or diffuse.
- His essays were always dry, dense, and rigmarolish.
- 1854, letter to Florence de Quincey, November 18, published 1877 in Thomas de Quincey: His Life and Writings, with Unpublished Correspondence, H. A. Page, editor Here's a rigmarolish paragraph, you say, about such a trifle as triliterality.