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• A non ambivalent worldview, thus absolute, is always anti-agnostic!From the entry anti-agnostic
• A non ambivalent worldview, thus absolute, is always antiagnostic!From the entry antiagnostic
• While gastrosexual "foodies" express great enthusiasm for all things food, the dude's relationship to food remains ambivalent.2020, Emily J. H. Contois, Diners, Dudes, and Diets: How Gender and Power Collide in Food Media and Culture, University of North Carolina…. From the entry gastrosexual
• Absolutely nails the issues with this caponesque, morally ambivalent, strutting UN wannabee.2018 February 16, Jody, “Goodbye, Mr Brandis. Good Riddance”, in Quadrant Online. From the entry caponesque
• Hongkongness remains ambivalent and eludes cultural nationalists' attempt to demarcate its boundaries.2007, Shu-mei Shih, Visuality and Identity: Sinophone Articulations across the Pacific, Berkeley: University of California Press, →ISBN…. From the entry Hongkongness
• Then there are those of us who are agonizingly ambivalent about a new ballpark for the Giants.1996 March 24, Robert Rubino, “Questionable Support For New SF Ballpark”, in Santa Rosa Press Democrat. From the entry skeptimist
• These “herbivore men,” as they are known in English, are said to be ambivalent about pursuing either women or conventional success.2018 November 13, Kate Julian, “Why Are Young People Having So Little Sex?”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 12 Jan 2019. From the entry herbivore man
• However, children's under-accommodating communication could induce elders' ambivalent feelings.2016, Lin Chen, Evolving Eldercare in Contemporary China: Two Generations, One Decision, →ISBN. From the entry under-accommodating
• Equally ambivalent is the attempt to operationalize country risk by differentiating a sovereign debtor's "unability" and "unwillingness" to pay.2012, Walter Berger, Financial Innovations in International Debt Management. From the entry unability
• Indiana’s Borderlanders called themselves Hoosiers, came from the backcountry of Kentucky and western Virginia, and were ambivalent about slavery.2011, Colin Woodard, chapter 16, in American nations, New York: Penguin, →ISBN. From the entry hoosier
• Few people in Rowshan regularly read Khowar works, however, and their attitudes towards the value of written Khowar are ambivalent.2005, Magnus Marsden, Living Islam: Muslim Religious Experience in Pakistan's North-West Frontier. From the entry Khowar
• Ambivalent acetylacetonates and tetracarbonyls with low melting points.2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections. From the entry tetracarbonyl
• For a long time, libertarian was interchangeable in France with anarchist but in recent years, its meaning has become more ambivalent.1991, Peter H[ugh] Marshall, “The Relevance of Anarchism”, in Demanding the Impossible: A History of Anarchism, London: Harper Perennial…. From the entry libertarian
• Mitch (Precious Pearl) is a smooth, impassive young man utterly dripping with the ambivalent sensuality of a teddy-boy in tap shoes.1991 April 6, Ron Caldwell, “Kind of Stranger”, in Gay Community News, page 16. From the entry teddy boy
• I'm ambivalent about being called a girl.1982 April 24, Lisa Orlando, “Let Bi Girls Be Bi Girls”, in Gay Community News, page 4. From the entry adultist
• His inherently less contrasty and detailed paper negative work, toward the end of his life, is at least more ambivalent and not so cold.1982 February 6, Martin Krieger, “Stark/Erotic”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 28, page 10. From the entry contrasty
• Philosopher Patricia MacCormack, who proudly dons the mantles of antinatalism and human extinctionism, finds herself “ambivalent about pessimism,” which she correctly regards as an overly masculine discourse.2018, Joseph Packer, Ethan Stoneman, A Feeling of Wrongness: Pessimistic Rhetoric on the Fringes of Popular Culture, Penn State Press, →ISBN. From the entry extinctionism
• One ambivalent heterosexual ally explained this decision-making: I think there were several people who were sensitive to issues like that about do we use the word lesbian?2006, Amy L. Stone, More than adding a T: transgender inclusion in Michigan gay rights ordinances, 1992-2000. From the entry alphabet soup
• While Lahr's book was meticulously researched, the author had such deeply ambivalent feelings about Orton's relationship with Halliwwell (and probably with all gay relationships) that the book felt off-center.1987 May 9, Michael Bronski, “Prick Up Your Marriage”, in Gay Community News, page 6. From the entry off-centre
• That particular quandary was styled as a hallmark of Generation X, and Reality Bites was perhaps the most polished of a bunch of mainstream attempts to portray the ambivalent cohort.2019 March 6, Soraya Roberts, “Reality Bites Captured Gen X With Perfect Irony”, in The Atlantic. From the entry sell out

Meaning of ambivalent

1. adjective Simultaneously experiencing or expressing opposing or contradictory feelings, beliefs, motivations, or meanings.
2. adjective Alternately being or having one opinion or feeling, and then the opposite.

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How do you use ambivalent in a sentence?

Ambivalent is used as an adjective. For example: “His feelings toward his parents are ambivalent.”

What is a short sentence with ambivalent?

“His feelings toward his parents are ambivalent.”

What does ambivalent mean?

Ambivalent means simultaneously experiencing or expressing opposing or contradictory feelings, beliefs, motivations, or meanings.