unambivalent
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of unambivalent
1940–45; un- 1 + ambivalent ( def. )
Example Sentences
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A senior United Arab Emirates official called on Monday for "codified and unambivalent" commitments from the United States to its security, adding it had no interest in "choosing sides".
From Reuters • Nov. 15, 2022
Lahey credits the state's Republican governor, Phil Scott, who has been "unambivalent about pro-vax messaging."
From Salon • Feb. 1, 2022
“Happiness,” he wrote, “involves the enthusiastic and unambivalent acceptance of activities or relationships that are not the best that might possibly be obtained.”
From New York Times • Nov. 24, 2020
I explained I was thinking of Franklin D. Roosevelt, who said, “I hate war,” roughly five years before prosecuting one with unambivalent vigor.
From The Wall Street Journal • Aug. 25, 2016
And being unambivalent is an awkward and ungainly circumstance for any satire to hem itself into.
From Forbes • Feb. 26, 2013
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