double-minded
Americanadjective
adjective
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Etymology
Origin of double-minded
First recorded in 1545–55
Example Sentences
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“I was a very double-minded person, as all Soviets were,” Lebedev said.
From New York Times ● Jan. 21, 2021
Mr. Comey looked to me both embarrassed and double-minded.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2016
As the old book has it, "The double-minded man is unstable in all his ways."
From Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula by Nathaniel Bright Emerson
Where he had been sincere, erring only from impulsiveness, she had been double-minded and calculating; and, now that her delusion had been broken down, she had nothing to rest upon.
From The Daisy chain, or Aspirations by Charlotte Mary Yonge
We in Britain are not clear-minded, I would point out, because we are double-minded.
From In the Fourth Year Anticipations of a World Peace by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
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