The Only Use of
ramifications
in
The Great Gatsby
- The none too savory ramifications by which Ella Kaye, the newspaper woman, played Madame de Maintenon to his weakness and sent him to sea in a yacht, were common knowledge to the turgid sub-journalism of 1902.†
p. 99..8
Definition:
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(ramifications) complications that result from an initial action -- typically unintended consequences