Usually means: Absurdly complex, nightmarish bureaucratic situations.
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  1. Kafkaesque: Merriam-Webster
  2. Kafkaesque: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Kafkaesque: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. Kafkaesque: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Kafkaesque, kafkaesque: Vocabulary.com
  6. Kafkaesque: Wordnik
  7. Kafkaesque: Wiktionary
  8. Kafkaesque: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. Kafkaesque: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. kafkaesque: Dictionary.com
  11. Kafkaesque: Online Etymology Dictionary
  12. Kafkaesque (Breaking Bad), Kafkaesque: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. kafkaesque: Rhymezone
  14. kafkaesque: FreeDictionary.org
  15. kafkaesque: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. Kafkaesque: TheFreeDictionary.com
  17. Kafkaesque: Merriam-Webster

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  1. Kafkaesque: Encyclopedia

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  1. kafkaesque: A Word A Day

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  1. Kafkaesque: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (Kafkaesque)

adjective:  Marked by a senseless, disorienting, often menacing complexity.
adjective:  Marked by surreal distortion and often a sense of looming danger.
adjective:  In the manner of something written by Franz Kafka.

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