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imbroglio

Posted on October 22, 2015October 20, 2015 by admin

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a difficult, confused, or complicated situation, often involving a misunderstanding, disagreement, or quarrel.
The proposed building of a mosque on Ground Zero caused an imbroglio.

“The imbroglio of events into which it is unnecessary for us to enter grew more and more complicated year by year, until at length it came to be a struggle between France and England for the ally who could be of most assistance to the one in the special way of injuring the other, and whom it was of the first advantage to both to secure.”

(Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant, Royal Edinburgh: Her Saints, Kings, Prophets and Poets)

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