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Noun(1) an awkward clash(2) awkward

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(1) The episode evoked an earlier contretemps , when the ministry of culture judged the visual-arts biennale to be overly sympathetic to new media at the expense of painting.(2) But there are harder battles ahead than that little contretemps in the desert.(3) Public contretemps sometimes can't be avoided.(4) A contretemps involving mistaken identities reminiscent of the opera lightheartedly weaves through the antics of farmers, dwellers, and other rural folk.(5) she had occasional contretemps with her staff(6) The answer may have something to do with the intervening contretemps over the Rosenbergs: It's harder to feel loyal to a movement when large segments of it are already attempting to excommunicate you.(7) Meanwhile, the largest contretemps of the campaign season erupted between two studios that are not even in the race for best picture.(8) It's hard to ignore the interoffice elements of the contretemps .(9) I frankly like the guy, after our little contretemps .(10) I think that is what prompted the unfortunate contretemps this evening.(11) This contretemps may have resulted, in part, from a simple paucity of means: only $500,000 was allotted for the whole undertaking.(12) What provoked the series of events that led to her going away, many months earlier, was a dinner-table contretemps in the Partridge household.(13) Its happy consummation is delayed over five volumes by intrigues, contretemps , and misunderstandings, many of them designed to exhibit the virtues and failings of Camilla, or to test and improve her character.(14) u251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu2510Apart from a little contretemps with the lighting backstage and a couple of cases of hay fever, there were no major problems,u251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu00fb Nicholas relates.(15) Stay tuned for how this little contretemps resolves itself.(16) the hotel had to deal with more than one contretemps before the end of the night
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Noun
1. argument
2. quarrel
3. squabble
4. disagreement
5. difference of opinion
6. dispute
7. tiff
8. set-to
9. run-in
10. spat
11. row


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