Crossword clues for imbroglio
imbroglio
- Confusion with men returning in horrible big limo
- Confusion caused by fuel gauge initially round motorway northwards
- Confusing situation
- Confused situation
- Embarrassing situation - knight pulled groin limbo dancing
- I'm right to block nasty blog over supporting one tangled situation
- I'm playing Borg: 51-0? What a mess!
- State of confusion and complication
- Entanglement
- A very embarrassing misunderstanding
- An intricate and confusing interpersonal or political situation
- Bitter disagreement
- Confused misunderstanding
- Very confused situation
- Groom wrestling with libido leaving party in confusion
- A complicated situation, in my opinion, that's glib or misguided to interrupt
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Imbroglio \Im*brogl"io\, n.; pl. Imbroglios. [Written also embroglio.] [It. See 1st Broil, and cf. Embroil.]
An intricate, complicated plot, as of a drama or work of fiction.
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A complicated and embarrassing state of things; a serious misunderstanding or disagreement, especially one that is bitter.
Wrestling to free itself from the baleful imbroglio.
--Carlyle.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. a complicated situation; an entanglement
WordNet
n. an intricate and confusing interpersonal or political situation [syn: embroilment]
a very embarrassing misunderstanding
Usage examples of "imbroglio".
They loved his anecdotes about growing up in south Boston, life in a strict Catholic household, his amusing imbroglios with the Paulist fathers at St.
The Earl of Emsworth had been sleeping a sound and peaceful sleep when the imbroglio began downstairs.
Besides, the presence of an agent of the Exarchy so close to the heart of this imbroglio was suggestive and might be put to some use.
At one moment she longed passionately for Jasper, the next she would dread his coming, for she knew well enough that he, with his straight matter-of-fact mode of thinking, would inevitably give Naniescu his due, insist that the general was within his rights, and advise his wife to keep clear of these imbroglios, which were so contrary to the lenient, sportsmanlike English attitude toward a beaten enemy.
I am recalling my comfortable home, my ordered life, my hitherto stainless reputation, and wondering what I can ever have done to deserve being pitchforked into this shameless imbroglio!
Venn immediately made sure to point out to Miles all the repairs completed and still in progress, in detail, with approximate costs, with a chronicle appended of all the quaddies who had been injured in the imbroglio, including names, ranks, prognoses, and the distress suffered by their family members.