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Imbroglio   /ɪmbrˈoʊljoʊ/   Listen
Imbroglio

noun
(pl. imbroglios)  (Written also embroglio)
1.
An intricate and confusing interpersonal or political situation.  Synonym: embroilment.
2.
A very embarrassing misunderstanding.






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"Imbroglio" Quotes from Famous Books



... following of bounds and rebounds wherein our destinies clash, one is obliged to recognise that God in His perfection is in want neither of mind nor of imagination nor comic force; on the contrary He excels in imbroglio as in everything else, and if after having inspired Moses, David and the Prophets He had thought it worth while to inspire M. le Sage or the interluders of a fair, He would dictate to them the most entertaining harlequinade." And in a similar way it occurred that ...
— The Queen Pedauque • Anatole France

... you would never dream that this Book treated of him at all. A pale sickly shadow in torn surplice is presented to us here; weltering bewildered amid heaps of what you call 'Hebrew Old-clothes;' wrestling, with impotent impetuosity, to free itself from the baleful imbroglio, as if that had been its one function in life: who in this miserable figure would recognize the brilliant, beautiful and cheerful John Sterling, with his ever-flowing wealth of ideas, fancies, imaginations; with his frank affections, inexhaustible hopes, audacities, ...
— The Life of John Sterling • Thomas Carlyle

... He won't mind much. Didn't you see, mother, that he was distrait the moment he espied that girl? I'm not going to waste my time. I know the signs. No fisheries imbroglio for me, thank you." ...
— Baddeck and That Sort of Thing • Charles Dudley Warner



Words linked to "Imbroglio" :   misinterpretation, misunderstanding, situation, mistaking



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