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ambivalent

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1. ambivalent - Adjective

2. ambivalent - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

uncertain or unable to decide about what course to follow

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The more ambivalent you are and the more uncertain you are, then you can get something that you cannot anticipate. Elia Kazan

America is a nation fundamentally ambivalent about its children, often afraid of its children, and frequently punitive toward its children. Letty Cottin Pogrebin

Americans have always had an ambivalent attitude toward intelligence. When they feel threatened, they want a lot of it, and when they don't, they regard the whole thing as somewhat immoral. Vernon A. Walters

The spectacular view always made Laing aware of his ambivalent feelings for this concrete landscape. Part of its appeal lay all too clearly in the fact that this was an environment built, not for man, but for man's absence. J. G. Ballard

Many in my family were ambivalent about it, but my mother encouraged me to put aside my fears. Vera (my wife) and I finally decided to leave Utah, where we were very happy, take a 40 per cent salary cut and move to the Laboratory of Molecular Biology at Cambridge. Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

I'm ambivalent. I like Gekko, which is partly why Michael Douglas did so well.... Gekko is despicable but kinda fun too. Oliver Stone

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