Imbroglio

Quick meaning: Imbroglio is a noun meaning A complicated situation; an entanglement.

Meaning

A complicated situation; an entanglement.

Example Sentences

Into the drawers and china pry, / Papers and books, a huge imbroglio! / Under a tea-cup he might lie, / Or creased, like dogs-ears, in a folio.

I could have phoned you with all this, Tallulah, but knowing you as I have over the years, when you and I have both been a party to some of Duncan's little imbroglios, I thought I should talk to you in person.

He [Edward Michael Adler] was inducted into the imbroglio of the Vietnam War, which so many of his age group and middle class Orthodox Jewish upbringing easily avoided by staying in university or going into the clergy. He didn't.

[David] Cameron's decision to hold a referendum alters the chemistry of politics. The casual way he offered a simple Yes–No referendum to Scotland in 2011 has led to a quasi-insoluble imbroglio over the future of the British Constitution.

Word Forms

• imbroglios
• imbrogli

Synonyms for imbroglio

Depending on context, synonyms include snarl, embroilment.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include embroilment, fray, muddle, mess, sham, fraud.

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