imbroglio
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Imbroglio, contretemps, foofaraw, brouhaha: News is about contention and disagreement.
From Washington Post • May 4, 2018
The biggest problem with the systems, Mr. Imbroglio said, is that they take a lot of time to install.
From New York Times • Oct. 1, 2015
He is the only English Minister who speaks German, knows German situations, interests, ways; or has the least real understanding of this huge German Imbroglio in which England is voluntarily weltering.
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 14 by Carlyle, Thomas
Imbroglio, im-brōl′yō, n. an intricate plot in a romance or drama: a perplexing state of matters: a complicated misunderstanding.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
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