All 5 Uses
ambivalent
in
Ancillary Justice
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- Jen Shinnan gets a very ambivalent picture of you.†
p. 60.6ambivalent = with mixed feelings
- With one hand she made a frustrated, ambivalent gesture.†
p. 128.7
- I saw Lieutenant Issaaia react with an instant of ambivalence—the next line spoke of food offerings not made for the dead, and the junior lieutenant conceivably might have been criticizing Lieutenant Awn for not coming to supper the night before, or breakfast on time this morning.†
p. 176.3 *ambivalence = uncertainty, indecision, or state of having mixed feelings about something
- Lieutenant Issaaia noticed Lieutenant Dariet's mood with a familiar ambivalence.†
p. 178.9
- Inspector Supervisor Skaaiat gestured ambivalence.†
p. 278.7
Definitions:
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(1)
(ambivalent) having mixed feelings about something -- such as when part of you wants to do something and part of you does not
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)