dilemma

IPA: dɪɫˈɛmʌ

A circumstance in which a choice must be made between two or more alternatives that seem equally undesirable.
A difficult circumstance or problem.
(logic) A type of syllogism of the form "if A is true then B is true; if C is true then D is true; either A or C is true; therefore either B or D is true".
(rhetoric) Offering to an opponent a choice between two (equally unfavorable) alternatives.

Examples of "dilemma" in Sentences

Fourthly, this dilemma is a self-perpetuating one.
It's what we call a dilemma: honest folk can disagree.
But that personal dilemma is compounded by Clement XV, who pushes
The object of the dilemma is the famed Guggenheim Museum and what color it should be.
An editor once defined the word "dilemma" for me as "a choice between two undesirable outcomes."
"Part of the dilemma is that Israel has been put in the overall foreign aid looping," he told JTA, a Jewish news agency.
Ethics concerns matters of right and wrong, good and bad; a dilemma is a difficult situation in which there appears no easy solution.
As I have been taught over and over again, the officer with the dilemma is the one covering the officer pointing the TASER, if the TASER misses then they will be taking the lethal shot.
The only possible solution I can see to this dilemma is a drawing together forthwith of the 3,500,000 Frenchspeaking Canadians and the 5,000,000 English-speaking Canadians to evolve a modus vivendi in those fields where we can act as a unit.