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US
/ˈkwɑndɝi, ˈkwɑndɹi/
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[ UK /kwˈɒndəɹi/ ]
[ UK /kwˈɒndəɹi/ ]
NOUN
- state of uncertainty or perplexity especially as requiring a choice between equally unfavorable options
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a situation from which extrication is difficult especially an unpleasant or trying one
the woeful plight of homeless people
finds himself in a most awkward predicament
How To Use quandary In A Sentence
- They would not face this quandary in a regular courtroom or military tribunal. Times, Sunday Times
- I have a similar quandary. Times, Sunday Times
- I suppose the modrn version of slapstick is "Funny" Home Videos, and I guess there's an element of this here (ooh! what's going to happen next?!) but, being an illustration, without the moral quandary of filming your four year old setting himself on fire with the intention of sending the tape off to Carlton Television. I'm still alive
- Jenson bemoans the loss of moral demands of a ‘highly opinionated God’ and the anomalous quandary of having to catechize the baptized in a post-Christian world.
- The issue of a present for Mother left me in a quandary, however.
- •Camp quandary: The infield is in flux as 3B Josh Fields will be pushed by Viciedo, a 19-year-old from Cuba, and 2B Chris Getz by Lillibridge and Nix. AL: Team-by-team spring training preview
- Necessary as these changes are, they leave us in a quandary.
- Jones has found that we are currently in a quandary comparable to that of the Red Queen in Through the Looking Glass: we have to run faster and faster just to stay in the same place.
- Their descendants have been left in a quandary.
- However, he said the family was now in a quandary.
