Meaning of mixed feelings | Babel Free

Definitions

Sentiments or opinions regarding a person, situation, or other matter which are conflicted and cause perplexity or confusion.

plural, plural-only

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Examples

“I, for one, regarded this master-at-arms with mixed feelings of detestation, pity, admiration, and something opposed to enmity.”

“[A]ll Sabbath observances, like⟳ a Scottish accent, strike⟳ in me mixed feelings, grateful and the reverse.”

“Arriving at Paddington, Mike stood on the platform, waiting for his box to emerge⟳ from the luggage-van, with mixed feelings of gloom and excitement.”

“Last⟳ week Madison (pop. 67,500) learned, with mixed feelings, that it would get⟳ a morning paper and lose⟳ an afternoon one.”

“I had mixed feelings about the Sonata in F (Op. 54) — a departure from the printed program⟳, noted in an insert⟳ — in which a deftly managed, elegantly characterized first movement was wedded to a tumultuous but unfocused Allegretto.”

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