ambivalent
adjective
having mixed feelings about someone or something; being unable to choose between two (usually opposing) courses of action.
ambivalently
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a word derived from
ambivalent.
Example Sentences
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If Gen Xers are the bosses now, they are the bosses only in a very Gen X way: ambivalently, fleetingly and with dubious authority.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 1, 2022
Asked by the karaoke hostess, Mei-Mei, whom he ambivalently courts, what he does for a living, he tells her that he’s “a craftsman who earns his money with his hands.”
From New York Times ● Jul. 21, 2021
That is a deeply disturbing dynamic, on and off screen, and a legacy with which Hollywood and its ambivalently rapt audiences continue to wrestle.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 12, 2021
But his actions are not the actions of someone who hates gay men, and his life betrays a deep love for the community that felt so ambivalently toward him.
From The Guardian ● May 28, 2020
Consider how repetitively and ambivalently they "reach out" to authority figures.
From Humanistic Nursing by Josephine G. Paterson
