false position

noun

a situation in which a person is forced to act or seems to be acting against his principles or interests

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But though all the curates were in an utterly false position they were not all equally depraved.

In short, a strange confusion reigns in your household; both you and your wife are in a false position.

"No; you didn't," said the boy, angered at this barefaced attempt to place him in a false position.

A cabinet, the author and victim of that false position, sank under the effort.

I am very sorry indeed that I allowed myself to be over-persuaded and placed in an undoubtedly false position.

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