adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
ambivalent (= not sure if you approve of something )
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The public have a rather ambivalent attitude towards science.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
more
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But the public mood is more ambivalent .
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But elements of a more ambivalent , productive, associative approach to signification also exist within feminist psychology.
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Telegraph/Times readers were more ambivalent , however, and our small sample of Guardian readers preferred the press by a big majority.
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As producers, their views will be more ambivalent , depending on whether they work in sunset or sunrise industries.
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As a consumer I am more ambivalent .
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Wasn't it possible that his sexuality was much more ambivalent than he had let on?
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The effect is a much more ambivalent and less fixed positioning of subjectivity.
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John Kennedy was even more ambivalent about the Shah than Eisenhower had been.
■ NOUN
attitude
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The same thing may explain the cricket establishment's ambivalent attitude towards the one-day matches that have shoved themselves on to the scene.
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The first concerns her obsession with purity and her ambivalent attitude towards it.
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I've always had a rather ambivalent attitude towards something happening to my father, and it persists.
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We find in Charles, however, an ambivalent attitude .
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Enlil had an ambivalent attitude to mankind.
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At the moment, the public has a rather ambivalent attitude toward science.
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One of the consequences of this is an ambivalent attitude to black immigrants.
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At the beginning of the popular health system many people had an ambivalent attitude to traditional herbal remedies.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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At the very least, men generally assume their ambivalent feelings are normal.
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Her distaste has since evolved into ambivalent fascination.
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However, he has been ambivalent on the military budget, overall.
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Some people can be ambivalent in this way for years.
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This disparity in social attitudes is certainly reflected in the ambivalent feelings held by retired people.
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To the extent that he focused on Indochina at all, he was ambivalent .