contretemps ,

"This is some little contretemps you two brought us, I must say."

And why should this little contretemps upset either of them?

"I got into a little contretemps with a couple of Yankees."

But for these small contretemps, all had been going smoothly.

This contretemps, still unresolved, may have cost the most members of all.

Or does everyone who had a role in the speech time contretemps feel a little embarrassed?

What may have been the larger philosophical questions behind these contretemps?

So this whole contretemps rests on a difference of four years?

There was a slight contretemps that might have been serious, though.

Look beneath the present contretemps, and you find a familiar scene.

Her honesty was at the root of their present contretemps.

I chuckled and roared all week thinking of the contretemps.

The contretemps about the memos made her willing to go.

Though each side blames the other for the contretemps, both have agreed to take the high road.

And it has been a contretemps for the Castle to be so slow in understanding the situation.

The contretemps that now springs up between them is hilarious.

He had been baulked by more than one serious contretemps.

The reporter did not share with his readers the one contretemps of the evening.

Administration officials insist that the contretemps played no role in either man's departure.

Yet through all these contretemps, somehow King keeps managing to land on his feet.

The atmosphere was marred only by a contretemps over language.

Even then, the contretemps over the Nissan campaign is unlikely to have died down.

One of her lingering challenges will be the contretemps over the birds.

But the most curious contretemps have involved issues of interest to Jewish constituents.

I'm so sorry about that little contretemps last time.