What's the difference between embroglio and imbroglio?
Embroglio
Definition:
(n.) See Imbroglio.
Example Sentences:
(1) It’s about uniting the country around common purposes.” He also referred to the billionaire’s recent Twitter-fuelled embroglio , in which Trump’s account retweeted a message which implied Iowa voters suffered from brain damage.
(2) The embroglio caused John Whittingdale, the chairman of the influential Commons culture, media and sport select committee, to indicate that 69-year-old Patten was no longer fit for the post.
Imbroglio
Definition:
(n.) An intricate, complicated plot, as of a drama or work of fiction.
(n.) A complicated and embarrassing state of things; a serious misunderstanding.
Example Sentences:
(1) Anyway, the whole imbroglio stems from one article by journalist Lisa Pryor.
(2) And yet, the board took no real action to investigate the allegations until 7 July 2011, when Murdoch selected two of his co-directors to deal with the imbroglio," the shareholders said in a legal filing in Delaware, where News Corp is registered .
(3) The fact that she was allowed to run at all, given her email imbroglio, was “a disgrace”.
(4) The government bounces from crisis to imbroglio and back again – but at Michael Gove's Department for Education, the revolution rolls on.
(5) Freed of the need to be reelected, our leaders (when they are not preoccupied with scandals like Ronald Reagan's Iran-Contra imbroglio, and Bill Clinton's impeachment over the Monica Lewinsky affair) become suddenly obsessed with insuring "their legacy".
(6) The fire burst out while Mark Reckless, a Tory, was asking whether he had discussed the imbroglio with the home secretary.
(7) A headline that accuses supreme court judges of being elitist and contemptuous counts as positively mild, of course, when compared with the most controversial of the Mail’s headlines during the whole imbroglio.
(8) One of the problems Canongate faces in this extraordinary literary imbroglio is that the book it has put out will be criticised for its inadequacy and, in some cases, the manuscript's errors.
(9) "This latest imbroglio is reducing the current Tory Party Chairman to a farcical figure.
(10) James Comey: Hillary Clinton email inquiry is FBI chief's latest controversy Read more Comey’s political imbroglio coincides with his attempt to persuade Congress that sophisticated commercial encryption poses a security threat.
(11) The prime minister has done everything he possibly can to make sure federal Labor washes up on the right side of this ugly imbroglio, which is rearing its head, inconveniently, just before a federal election.
(12) And yes, the Falkirk imbroglio – which may yet spread to other places – does highlight a mess of problems traceable to the state of the so-called union link: the emergence of huge "super-unions", the arcane rules governing their role in the party, and more.
(13) Photograph: Rex Rome, 1492, and it's imbroglio a-go-go when Pope Bastard I pops his ecclesiastical cork and lets the fun times flow.
(14) At the height of the Whitewater imbroglio, she claimed some of the billing records of her Rose Law Firm had gone missing.
(15) Tough as she can seem, she doesn’t have rhino hide, and during her husband’s first term in the White House, according to Her Way , a critical (and excellent) investigative biography of Clinton by Jeff Gerth and Don Van Natta, she became very depressed during the Whitewater imbroglio.
(16) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Head to head: Putin and Trump hold meeting on sidelines of G20 Summit This is where the Russia imbroglio has left Trump.