mixed feelings
A partly positive and partly negative reaction to something, as in I have mixed feelings about this trip; I'd love to go but don't want to ride in that tiny car.
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How to use mixed feelings in a sentence
I have very mixed feelings about what the event has become, which is just one big frat party.
Before the Bros, SantaCon Was as an Anti-Corporate Protest | David Freedlander | December 12, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAnd I worry that the world will have very mixed feelings about him.
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Ukraine Families Flee Into the Forest to Escape Brutal Fighting in Sloviansk | Yusuf Sayman | June 10, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTViewers may share my mixed feelings about the coverage itself.
Divine had mixed feelings about Pink Flamingos—it made him famous yet notorious, and difficult to get work as a real actor.
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It was with mixed feelings of joy and regret that the regiment embarked on the steamer for New Orleans.
The Blue and The Gray | A. R. WhiteTheir father looked upon them with mixed feelings of tender pride in them, and regret for his own lost youth.
The Hour and the Man | Harriet MartineauFrom that first-night performance of Cordelia's much-talked-of drama Hartley carried away many mixed feelings.
The Silver Poppy | Arthur StringerThe arrival of the mission was necessarily regarded with mixed feelings by the inhabitants of the Transvaal.
The Last Boer War | H. Rider HaggardMeanwhile Mr. Mackenzie's success was viewed with very mixed feelings at the Cape.
The Last Boer War | H. Rider Haggard
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