imbroglio
noun
a misunderstanding, disagreement, etc., of a complicated or bitter nature, as between persons or nations.
imbroglios
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pluralof imbroglio.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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The developments are the latest in unprecedented legal imbroglios surrounding the former premier, now the country’s top opposition leader.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 24, 2023
The duo sometimes set up Skype meetings with their targets, one of them on camera and wearing a silicone mask of Le Drian in order to petition for help with political imbroglios.
From Salon ● Mar. 12, 2022
He conjured his own threadbare reality, about success, about virility, about imbroglios with women, even about the height of Trump Tower.
From New York Times ● Oct. 3, 2020
It would have been sadly fitting in this summer of nonsensical golf rules imbroglios if the lowest round in PGA Tour history was undone by another rules snafu.
From Golf Digest ● Aug. 8, 2016
What king or man had seen himself delivered from such strangling imbroglios of destruction, such devouring rages of a hostile world?
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 21 by Thomas Carlyle
