Ambivalent

//æmˈbɪv.ə.lənt//

"Ambivalent" in a Sentence (10 examples)

Professional language producers can be expected to be ambivalent about clichés.

I'm ambivalent about the itinerary for our overseas trip which my brother has drawn up.

I thought that first officer Riker in Star Trek: The Next Generation was a handsome man, but a homestay Japanese girl student Noriko was ambivalent.

He is genuinely ambivalent about running for president again.

I have this ambivalent attitude towards my boss.

India is fairly ambivalent on the Ukraine War.

I feel very ambivalent about this.

In modern burlesque [...] sexual and erotic stimuli are often present in concealed and ambivalent doubles entendres.

The great sociologist Zygmunt Bauman argued that philo-Semitism and anti-Semitism both fall under “allosemitism”: literally Othering the Jew. He defined it not as resentment of what is different, which is xenophobia, but rather of what defies order and clear categories. In 1997, he wrote, “The Jew is ambivalence incarnate. And ambivalence is ambivalence mostly because it cannot be contemplated without ambivalent feeling: it is simultaneously attractive and repelling.”

His feelings toward his parents are ambivalent.

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