Definitions for imbroglio

imbroglio im·bro·glio

Spelling: [im-brohl-yoh]
IPA: /ɪmˈbroʊl yoʊ/

Imbroglio is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 194 anagrams from letters in imbroglio (bgiilmoor).

Definitions for imbroglio

noun

  1. a misunderstanding, disagreement, etc., of a complicated or bitter nature, as between persons or nations.
  2. an intricate and perplexing state of affairs; a complicated or difficult situation.
  3. a confused heap.

Origin of imbroglio

1740-50; Italian, derivative of imbrogliare to embroil

Examples for imbroglio

The imbroglio of the Ladies of the Bedchamber had been settled in 1840.

But at last I had grasped the clue to this imbroglio into which fate had thrust me.

Now, as the European imbroglio is clarified, at them, at them!

Yet the current imbroglio in which Obama finds himself is self-inflicted.

No wonder the summit was eclipsed by the B-movie imbroglio over Secret Service agents moonlighting as sex tourists.

Numerous have been the attempts to entangle me in that imbroglio.

It is your own course of action, remember, which has led to the present—the present—well, let us say imbroglio.

"He must have sold Floyd the powder," answered Wye, intent on the imbroglio.

Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell, on the other hand, found the Sestak imbroglio to be less, er, pungent.

The Mesopotamian imbroglio was denounced as both a crime and a blunder.

Word Value for imbroglio
Scrable

14

Words with friends

18

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