Sentence examples for ambivalent means from inspiring English sources

"Ambivalent" means having strong inclinations in contradictory directions!' Which is right.

"She said, 'I'm ambivalent.' I said, 'Well, that sort of means you can kind of take it or leave it.' She looked at me, she said, 'That's not what "ambivalent" means!

It's one thing for another person not to know if they should or shouldn't be in a relationship, but to know that you are ambivalent means the relationship is not good for now.

The play gives Malvolio a voice; but the knowledge he would "be revenged" by silencing the voices of others keeps our attitude towards him ambivalent, and means the story never slips over into saccharine character rescue.

People on both sides of the 14-month conflict are angry, cynical and passionately ambivalent, favoring violent means while longing for peace.

'Being ambivalent doesn't mean that you're a relevatist, that anything goes, it just means that you show the complexity of life.

However, neighbourhood is ambivalent as it also means competition when there are not sufficient resources for all (Connell 1990).

But even though the group is willing to break the law to bring horrific information to light, this person seems ambivalent about what it means to fight for justice in the age of hacking.

We should worry about lenient sentences and ambivalent public attitudes, which mean rapists aren't sufficiently afraid of being condemned and punished.

Yes it's a clever take on Scotland's ambivalent take on what it means to be Scottish, played out through Robbie Burns, the Border Ballads and Sir Walter Scott.

HIV physicians remain ambivalent regarding the most effective means to screen for anal cancer.