ethical
Moral dilemmas are frequently involved in caring for the old and sick.
The doctors were faced with an unsettling moral dilemma: should they tell their patients the truth or simply conceal the information?
The critically ill patient who refuses treatment presents an ethical dilemma.
Secrets often present a moral dilemma for adolescents.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Difficult situations and unpleasant experiences
a hard/tough row to hoeidiom
abyss
adversity
at your worstidiom
Augean
bad hair day
epidemic
half nelson
hardness
have a bumpy rideidiom
pall
purgatory
push factor
quagmire
quicksand
rabbit hole
scrape
strait
the Augean Stablesidiom
the hard wayidiom