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  • adverb In a conflicted fashion.

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conflicted +ā€Ž -ly

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Examples

  • As a physical presence in much of her recent work, she is no less formidable, nor any less conflictedly in thrall to the history and present potential of glamour, her own and others'.

    Linder, the artist with the hex factor 2011

  • The time is the late 19th Century, the place rural New South Wales, and the heroine Sybylla Melvyn - a willfully, conflictedly headstrong young woman, thrillingly played by Judy Davis.

    Judy Davis, Inspiring 'Brilliant Career's 30 Years Later 2009

  • This month, the editor of The Journal, Robert Thomson, turned the tables on those critics in a speech at Columbia University, saying that many newspaper competitors had "abysmally and conflictedly" covered the scandal, as reported on the Forbes Web site.

    NYT > Home Page By NOAM COHEN 2011

  • As a physical presence in much of her recent work, she is no less formidable, nor any less conflictedly in thrall to the history and present potential of glamour, her own and others'.

    The Guardian World News Brian Dillon 2011

  • The time is the late 19th Century, the place rural New South Wales, and the heroine Sybylla Melvyn, a willfully, conflictedly headstrong young woman thrillingly played by Judy Davis.

    NPR Topics: News 2009

  • And for a movie based on book brimming with wild and complex and conflictedly-motivated characters, all of them improbable but real, Charlie Wilson's War is a disappointingly underpopulated film, practically a three-person drama, with Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts, given far too much screen time for the degree her character really matters to the story --- Joanne Herring was an instigator but not much of participant in the real life drama, but because she's played by Roberts the filmmakers must have felt obligated to keep her front and center long after she should have left the stage --- in the leads and Philip Seymour Hoffman, given far too little screen time for the degree his character really matters, in support.

    Lance Mannion: 2008

  • I’m stealing this variety of pacifism from GURPS), and simply anger at the Bush administration generally I think that some people who probably would have been conflictedly supportive of such a war under, say, Clinton, were probably tipped over the side by the fact that Bush has made it a habit of pissing on ALL international mores, from Kyoto to ABM.)

    What is the theme of the campaign for SSM? 2004

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