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A circumstance in which a choice must be made between two or more alternatives that seem equally undesirable.
- A strong dilemma in a desperate case! / To act with infamy, or quit the place.
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Any difficult circumstance or problem.
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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".
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Offering to an opponent a choice between two (equally unfavorable) alternatives.rhetoric
syn. Catch-22 · dilemma · Hobson's choice · Morton's fork · no-win situation · quandary · Sophie's choice