(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.
Mess
Definition:
(n.) Mass; church service.
(n.) A quantity of food set on a table at one time; provision of food for a person or party for one meal; as, a mess of pottage; also, the food given to a beast at one time.
(n.) A number of persons who eat together, and for whom food is prepared in common; especially, persons in the military or naval service who eat at the same table; as, the wardroom mess.
(n.) A set of four; -- from the old practice of dividing companies into sets of four at dinner.
(n.) The milk given by a cow at one milking.
(n.) A disagreeable mixture or confusion of things; hence, a situation resulting from blundering or from misunderstanding; as, he made a mess of it.
(v. i.) To take meals with a mess; to belong to a mess; to eat (with others); as, I mess with the wardroom officers.
(v. t.) To supply with a mess.
Example Sentences:
(1) They were preceded by the publication of The Success and Failure of Picasso (1965) and Art and Revolution: Ernst Neizvestny and the Role of the Artist in the USSR (1969); in one, he made a hopeless mess of Picasso’s later career, though he was not alone in this; in the other, he elevated a brave dissident artist beyond his talents.
(2) And that's why I was the first G20 finance minister to introduce a permanent tax on banks – because it's fair that they help clear up the mess they did so much to create.
(3) We need to stop making excuses for them: But it is up to the state to close the loopholes Yes, the state must work continually to tighten and simplify the tax regime, which is a deliberate mess keeping an entire industry of accounting firms and tax lawyers fed.
(4) Of course, amid this mess some free schools are doing marvellously.
(5) The first UK comedy show I ever performed was a total mess.
(6) The local inanimate environment, including mess hut, sleeping huts and sleeping bags used on expeditions, was searched for contamination by S. aureus but none was detected.
(7) Some say Film Socialism is an eccentric masterpiece ; others that it's an eccentric mess.
(8) They had a good threat up top with the two lads up front, who messed us around all day long to be honest.
(9) Clubs got into a mess partly because rich people, who knew nothing about football, put money in - and they got ripped off."
(10) "Sorry to leave it in such a mess, old cock", was the parting shot from the Conservative chancellor.
(11) My weight went down and my house was a bit of a mess.
(12) Friends describe him, kindly, as a mess: invariably tieless, usually unshaven and "sweaty, because he always goes round on his bike".
(13) It had promised its national deficit would drop from 9.5% of GDP to 6%, but turned in an 8.5% deficit that made it the laughing stock of austerity Europe – and left Rajoy's new government having to clean up the mess, which also includes 24% unemployment and a recession that will shrink the economy by 1.7%.
(14) But it's not OK to mess up a movie, it's not OK to do that just so you can improve as an actor.
(15) And to put us in a situation where we are only ‘patriotic’ and only ‘heard’ if we actively take it upon ourselves to fight ‘terrorism’, as if we are responsible for these horrible acts, or by sending us to wars killing other Muslims, is also a problematic discourse.” While on guard near the Iraqi city of Baqubah in 2004, the 27-year-old Humayun Khan ran towards a suicide bomb vehicle that was headed in the direction of a mess hall where hundreds of servicemen were eating.
(16) But they just didn’t know how to manage the situation.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Children and adults in the mess at the detention centre Police would book an appointment to interview a child about a serious allegation then fail to show up, Rose said.
(17) Their expertise led to this mess, and would be a hindrance, not a help, in cleaning it up.
(18) What a complete mess - a miscued shot, scuffed clearance, and uncontrolled toe-punt as he fell - but a decisive mess all the same."
(19) But Hancock said: "Their fiscal policy is in a mess.
(20) "The only answer to the mess we are in is social uprising and the end of all these barbaric measures."