NOUN
- a situation in which a favorable outcome is impossible; you are bound to lose whatever you do
How To Use no-win situation In A Sentence
- The public are left subsidising a loss-making cause to the tune of £600,000 a year and have been committed to a no-win situation.
- For this reason, you can't help but feel that Plant is in a bit of a no-win situation every time he releases a new record and some of his solo output has been indifferent to say the least.
- It was a no-win situation. Either she pretended she hated Ned and felt awful or admitted she loved him and felt even worse!
- For Marie Antoinette, as for Diana, it was a no-win situation, not helped by the fact that she and her feckless husband had difficulty in producing all-important heirs.
- This law puts them in a no-win situation: They will be forced to offend and anger someone who is perhaps a citizen or here legally when they ask to see his papers or be accused of nonfeasance because they do not. Arizona's Immigration Mistake
- It was a measured response from a leader plunged into a no-win situation by adversaries who had shown themselves fully prepared to give their lives for their cause.
- If I ran into a no-win situation - which should be rare - then I'd reload from a save slot before I got into the no-win. Genie, Give Me A Wish
- It was a no-win situation. Either she pretended she hated Ned and felt awful or admitted she loved him and felt even worse!
- If my child is sick and I leave work, I'm a bad employee. If I don't, I'm a bad mother. It's a no-win situation .
- Being a visible female token in any organization, corporation, university or industrial plant dominated by men is a no-win situation.