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
O’Donovan’s personal touchstones are swept into the mood of the album: pensive, determined, ambivalently and then determinedly hopeful.
From New York Times ● Jan. 19, 2022
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
But for now, here it was fixated on him and wavering ambivalently between hope and belief that humans were the good, the god, the sustenance, and the deliverer—its cries as supplications of prayer.
From An Apostate: Nawin of Thais by Steven (Steven David Justin) Sills
