Adjective : a farraginous collection of random ideas. From Dictionary.com.
Some farraginous mix of my own thoughts, knowledge, and memories?. From Wordnik.com. [Analog Science Fiction and Fact]
The farraginous flotilla threw alien city-shadows against the night sky. From Wordnik.com. [Bloodhype]
Enormous caravans, farraginous and densely populated, crisscrossed the lands. From Wordnik.com. [notes from the peanut gallery] Reference
It's a purposefully indecipherable, farraginous, hodgepodge of pseudo-political images. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Diffee: The Rejection Collection (and Caption Contest)] Reference
This engaging, farraginous show at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, on Fifth Avenue, invites the viewer to think of the nineteenth-century landscape artist, usually envisioned as the independent producer of a luxury artifact, as, instead, a tool of commerce and real estate development. From Wordnik.com. [The Artist as Prospector] Reference
Is "farraginous" really the right word?. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Diffee: The Rejection Collection (and Caption Contest)] Reference
Thou art, I vow, the remarkablest progenitor barring none in this chaffering allincluding most farraginous chronicle. From Wordnik.com. [Ulysses] Reference
Looking remarkably at her ease in a smart tailor-made frock of navy serge, silk stockings, suede shoes, and a perfect summer hat trimmed with bright cherries as red as her lips, she sat amid a farraginous medley of newspapers, small parcels, and shiny leather traps, and presented an attractive picture of a flourishing schoolgirl of seventeen, -- careless, mischievous, and keenly, though discreetly, interested in everything about her; -- but, perhaps a little too healthy, and certainly too beautiful, to be quite typical either of the class or of the kind of school from which she hailed. From Wordnik.com. [Too Old for Dolls A Novel] Reference
At least we are safely rid of certain horrors; but if the multitude — that “farraginous concurrence of all conditions, tempers, sexes, and ages” — do not roll back even to a superstition that carries cruelty in its train, it is not because they possess a cultivated reason, but because they are pressed upon and held up by what we may call an external reason — the sum of conditions resulting from the laws of material growth, from changes produced by great historical collisions shattering the structures of ages and making new highways for events and ideas, and from the activities of higher minds no longer existing merely as opinions and teaching, but as institutions and organizations with which the interests, the affections, and the habits of the multitude are inextricably interwoven. From Wordnik.com. [The Essays of "George Eliot" Complete] Reference
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