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ambivalent
adjective as in conflicting
Example Sentences
For many Latino members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, there is an ambivalent sense of the Church’s stance on immigrants.
There was an ambivalent, if not stone cold, attitude towards the beefy Californian.
Los Angeles, home of the nation’s first freeway and drive-in church, has long been ambivalent if not downright antagonistic toward paid parking.
Work I was involved in has shown that people who are dispositionally ambivalent — that is, who are more comfortable holding contradictory thoughts or feelings — are less prone to cognitive biases like the confirmation bias.
But many people are ambivalent, having seen the kind of consequences that always-present online life and toxic social media have brought alongside their benefits.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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