embroglio

American  

[em-brohl-yoh] / ɛmˈbroʊl joʊ /

noun

• embroglios
  plural

1. imbroglio.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• embroglios
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of embroglio

Confused with embroil

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Example Sentences

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embroglio embroglios

So, among the many obligations that America owes to Washington, must be named this one of pushing Thomas Jefferson, the scholar and man of peace, into the political embroglio and shutting the door.

From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 03 Little Journeys to the Homes of American Statesmen by Elbert Hubbard

This embroglio is smoothed out, and Amiles and Bellicent are happily united.

From A Short History of French Literature by George Saintsbury

Huggins is goin' to take all the chances of this embroglio.'

From Wolfville Days by Alfred Henry Lewis

And the whole embroglio is your fault, if you come to look at it between the eyes.

From The Lightning Conductor Discovers America by C. N. (Charles Norris) Williamson

What was this new factor in the embroglio?

From The Curse of Koshiu A Chronicle of Old Japan by Lewis Wingfield

Although I am not deficient in personal bravery, as I had opportunity to prove in my student-days, and afterwards in political embroglios, it is not my nature to seek for perils.

From The Lonely House by Adolph Streckfuss

The most serious of these Cabinet embroglios occurred late in December of 1862, while Lincoln was well-nigh overwhelmed by Burnside's dreadful repulse at Fredericksburg.

From The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln A Narrative And Descriptive Biography With Pen-Pictures And Personal Recollections By Those Who Knew Him by Francis F. (Francis Fisher) Browne

Thar's other embroglios more or less smoky an' permiscus, which gets pulled off one way an' another, but they ain't held to apply to us of rights.

From Faro Nell and Her Friends Wolfville Stories by W. Herbert Dunton

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