Crossword-Solution: DILEMMA 7 letters, 220 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

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Word Word Type Definition
Dilemma n. An argument which presents an antagonist with two or more
alternatives, but is equally conclusive against him, whichever
alternative he chooses.
Dilemma n. A state of things in which evils or obstacles present
themselves on every side, and it is difficult to determine what course
to pursue; a vexatious alternative or predicament; a difficult choice
or position.

We have 220 clues for the answer “DILEMMA”

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"Horned" problem 1 answer
"The Doctor's ___": G. B. S. 1 answer
"The Doctor's ___." 1 answer
"To be or not to be," for example. 1 answer
An awkward fix. 1 answer
Choice between two unfavorable options 1 answer
Choice of two evils. 1 answer
Choosing between two evils, say 1 answer
Crossroads problem. 1 answer
Darned if you do... state 1 answer
Difficulty with two choices 1 answer
Ethical challenge 1 answer
Horned thing? 1 answer
Horns problem? 1 answer
It may have horns 1 answer
POSITION involving choice between two evils 1 answer
Perplexing choice 1 answer
Problem with "horns" 1 answer
Problematic situation 1 answer
Situation with horns. 1 answer
Spot between the devil and the deep blue sea. 1 answer
State of uncertainty requiring a difficult choice between two options 1 answer
This has horns 1 answer
Thorny problem 1 answer
Thorny situation 1 answer
To eat a late lunch or wait until dinner, say 1 answer
Tough poser 1 answer
Two-horned problem. 1 answer
Word from the Greek for "two assumptions" 1 answer
difficult choice between two alternative s 1 answer
difficult choice between two alternatives 1 answer
situation involving difficult choices 1 answer
situation offering a choice between two undesirable alternatives 1 answer
situation requiring a choice between equally unpleasant option 1 answer
situation requiring a choice between options 1 answer
state of uncertainty or perplexity especially as requiring a choice between equally unfavorable options 1 answer
Situation involving an impossible choice 1 answer
CLEFT stick 2 answers
Choice between two equally bad options 2 answers
Difficult choice 2 answers
Real predicament 2 answers
The trolley problem, for one 2 answers
To be or not to be. 2 answers
Tough decision 2 answers
Perplexing problem 3 answers
Real pickle 3 answers
Tight situation 3 answers
Condition of difficulty 4 answers
Perplexing situation 4 answers
Tough choice 5 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with DILEMMA (5)

His concern at this dilemma (which would have been alarm, had he been a thriving man; but misfortune is a fine opiate to personal terror) led him to peer cautiously from the hay, and the first sight he beheld was the stars above him.
Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992
The demonstration of Perseus will show only a fraction of the real work that has gone into it, because the project had to face the dilemma of what to enter when putting something into machine-readable form: should one aim for very high quality or make concessions in order to get the material in? Since Perseus decided to opt for very high quality, all of its primary materials exist in a system-independent--insofar as it is possible to be system-independent--archival form.
LOC Workshop on Electronic Texts Library of Congress 1993
Chapter 9 The New Negro Immigration and Migration During the nineteenth century, the American racial dilemma had appeared to be a regional problem.
The Black Experience in America Norman Coombs 2008
Thus Thuvia of Ptarth found a way out of a dilemma, escaping the necessity of placing her father’s royal guest under forcible restraint, and at the same time separating the two princes, who otherwise would have been at each other’s throat the moment she and the guard had departed.
Thuvia, Maid of Mars Edgar Rice Burroughs 1993
Isaac’s own share in this transaction was considerable, and he well knew that the Prince’s eager desire to bring it to a conclusion would ensure him his protection in the dilemma in which he stood.
Ivanhoe Walter Scott 1993

Quotes with DILEMMA (3)

Spontaneously, without any theological training, I, a child, grasped the incompatibility of God and shit and thus came to question the basic thesis of Christian anthropology, namely that man was created in God's image. Either/or: either man was created in God's image - and has intestines! - or God lacks intestines and man is not like him. The ancient Gnostics felt as I did at the age of five. In the second century, the Great Gnostic master Valentinus resolved the damnable dil…
Milan Kundera The Unbearable Lightness of Being
As Hegel said, tragedy was not the conflict between right and wrong but right and right, a dilemma none of us who wanted to participate in history could escape. The major had the right to live, and I was right to kill him. Wasn't I?
Viet Thanh Nguyen The Sympathizer
TO BE is life's dilemma while facing the eternity of death.
Sorin Cerin
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Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, S&S, The Atlantic, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 66 times in crossword archives (1947–2025).