Did you perchance mean quandary?
Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. common misspelling of quandary.
Examples
“Oh, and Matt, your quandry is a particularly difficult one (and not entirely dissimilar from experiences I've had).”
“My present quandry is whether to sell the thing and get something dependable, but then I'd just be passing on a piece of undependable junk to someone else, and I really don't want to do that!”
“The reviewer quandry is a toughie, but reading is more than the sum total of it's parts (damn, Neuromancer is stuck in my head now) -- in addition to being well written, having exceptional world building, etc ad nauseam, there's also the emotional, cool cat shooting lazer beams out of its eyeballs factor;) A balance is a good thing -- and I think you do this beautifully in your reviews.”
“And more recently, for the last 10 seconds, because the word 'quandry' looks wrong, all I can think of is 'quarry' there's one on the way from Misungwi to Mwanza, lots of rocks in this region.”
“So I found myself in a quandry: If I do become a paid and published author, do I go with my real name, or a pen name?”
“I have been so busy preparing for Hannukah and Christmas (both) that I have, thus far, pushed away the urge to weigh in on the so-called "December dilemma" (a term used to describe to the quandry in which so called "interfaith" Jewish/Christian couples find themselves as Hanukkah and Christmas approach).”
The Huffington Post: Michele Somerville: December Dilemma: Maccabees vs. The Elves
“To any professor considering banning laptops: get over your moral quandry and do it.”
“They're in a bit of a quandry; perhaps the website going live means they've figured out how to work around this quandry.”
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“Schumer doesn't give a hoot about Arizona and its quandry!”
Arizona governor bucks senator's request over immigration law
“Now Failin Palin is throwing her hand into the Middle East quandry.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘quandry’.
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Cool sounding words
Stuff that either rolls off the tongue really well or sounds interesting.
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hildjj's Words
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the first list
an immense, grandiloquent list that loads like a thousand years sentence in stone. new words are in the other lists.
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princeton review
jubilance, obtrusive, maladjusted, prodigious, incredulous, stolidity, inured, stoicism, sidereal, boisterous, etiolated, circumscribed and 90 more...
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kirstenio's Words
lascivious, transcendant, phantasmagoria, salacious, beatitude, solitude, pseudo, pretentious, inanity, sublimation, clobber, obscurity and 186 more...
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justin's Words
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DEF's list
Obscure Words
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MsHalston's Words
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Fun
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PlayerWon's Words
perambulate, clandestine, morose, internecine, deracinate, promulgate, defenestrate, supine, perturb, staid, tumultuous, innocuous and 50 more...
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pretty sounds
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Char's Words
sod, baps, pumpkin, melodical, haddock, smorgasboard, tsunami, knell, spidery, beams, salacious, apple and 23 more...
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Eilonwy's Words
edify, kindred spirit, verisimilitude, etymology, epitome, extemporaneous, eccentric, illuminate, renaissance, resplendent, dichotomy, tranquility and 75 more...
Tweets
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sonofgroucho I think you may have a point. Jun 9, 2007
squareintheteeth Is this an actual word? Or just a misspelling of quandary? Dec 18, 2006