embroglio
Americannoun
PLURAL
embrogliosEtymology
Origin of embroglio
Confused with embroil
Example Sentences
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He also referred to the billionaire’s recent Twitter-fuelled embroglio, in which the real-estate mogul’s account retweeted a message which implied Iowa voters suffered from brain damage.
From The Guardian
Nor is his relation to the three-cornered embroglio within the Church itself anywhere set forth in detail.
From Project Gutenberg
During the last generation there has developed among Negroes the feeling that the political embroglio is an unclean sphere which the minister should not enter.
From Project Gutenberg
Lord Clare considered and reconsidered the strange embroglio whilst refreshing his inner man with chicken-pasty for a long business talk with Castlereagh.
From Project Gutenberg
What was this new factor in the embroglio?
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