ethical dilemma
noun
A situation in which a person must choose between two courses of action of (apparent) equal moral importance, so that the choice necessarily entails the transgression of an important moral principle.
Origin
Mid 19th century; earliest use found in Foreign Quarterly Review.
- parting cup
- parting line
- parting of the ways
- parting plane
- parting rail
- parting sand
- parting shard
- parting shot
- parting slip
- parting strip
- parting tool
- parti-partial
- parti pris
- Parti Quebecois
- Parti Québecois
- Parti Québécois
- partisan
- partisanery
- partisanism
- partisanized
- partisanly
- partisan ranger
- partisanry
- partisanship
- partita