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What does ambivalent mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word ambivalent? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Simultaneously experiencing or expressing opposing or contradictory feelings, beliefs, or motivations.
  2. Alternately having one opinion or feeling, and then the opposite.
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Their attitude to Hale is ambivalent at best and I suspect that it is actively hostile.
The melodies could sometimes be stronger, but King's lyrics and delivery convey an arresting spectrum of ambivalent emotions.
I wanted a book that showed us how ambiguous we are, or how ambivalent we are.
In practice, we have managed to do better than our ambivalent attitudes suggest.
But in Britain and the US many people feel ambivalent or antagonistic towards the mainstream popular resistance.
As an instinctive fence-sitter, I have recently found myself ambivalent on most of them.

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