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quagmiresnounpl. of quagmire a difficult, puzzling, or embarrassing situation from which there is no easy escapethe party was once again facing its quadrennial quagmire: the candidate sufficiently liberal to win the nomination would be too liberal for the general election binds, boxes, catch-22's(or catch-22s), corners, dilemmas, fixes, holes, impasses, jackpots(chiefly West), jams, mires, pickles, predicaments, rabbit holes, rattraps, spots, sticky wickets, swamps difficulties, nodeshot waters, soupspinches, plights, quandaries, scrapes, troublesdeadlocks, halts, logjams, stalemates, standstillsclutches, crises, crossroads, emergencies, exigencies, junctures, straits kettles of fish something that catches and holdsa protracted custody dispute that became a judicial quagmire entanglements, meshes, morasses, nets, nooses, quicksands, snares, tanglements, toils, traps, webs knots, snarls, tanglescat's cradles, labyrinths, mazescobwebs, spiderwebs |