false position

noun

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

Example Sentences

Newcastle are 12th and have been very average at times, but they strike me as being a team who are in a false position, compared to what they are capable of.

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“I just view it as another way of the communist party of China putting the falsity out there, trying to divide, and it’s just an unfair position that they have and a false position that they have from the rest of the world’s stance,” said McCarthy, criticizing China’s ban on Japanese seafood.

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If you think having to be polite at the going-away party for a voluntarily departing employee puts you in a false position, Miss Manners worries what will happen when you have to tell your valued assistant that the company cannot afford to give him a raise.

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“The deadliest thing about being rich is it isolates you. It puts you in a false position — you either feel guilty or superior. The loneliest people I know are rich. And,” she adds laughing, “some of them never pick up the check.”

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To some extent it’s a false position: at times they have looked excellent, especially in beating Everton and Manchester United, but they have also suffered exasperating defeats against Watford and Wolves among others.

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