embroilment
- n an intricate and confusing interpersonal or political situation
- Though he has not previously had any such deep involvement in urban problems, his embroilment in Detroit has caused him to switch his priorities.
- After his embroilment in the Nixon Administration's only serious appointment hassle, Walter Hickel was doubly confirmed: both in his new job as Secretary of the Interior and in .
- Was it afire sale? Bumptious Interior Secretary James Watt found himself at the center of a new embroilment last week.