Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having many successive states of mind in regard to some matter, but unable to come to a decision about them; lacking in decision; vacillating.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having many faculties; versatile; many-sided.
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Examples
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First of all, yes, indeed, the “many-minded” comment which must have been in the van on the way back from the bookfair was a reference to that FLL thread, which I think we talked about explicitly.
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First of all, yes, indeed, the "many-minded" comment which must have been in the van on the way back ...
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But whenever Nabokov's many-minded masterwork rubs up against big money and mass audiences things get weird.
Waiting For Humbert 2008
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He's a tough-minded, many-minded man: a historian, a critic and a social and political observer, as well as a Christian apologist.
Periscope 2007
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The presidential message has met, as might have been anticipated, with a very varied reception from the great political parties, from the many-minded press, and from what may be designated the non-partisan or politically colorless section of the American people.
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In fact, you are "a many-minded, many-bodied" man -- a collection of mental and physical _parts_, a composite man rather than a man unit.
Certain Success Norval A. Hawkins
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From the rat-infested slums, from the hot shadows and the mazy back-bazaars, from temples, store-houses, shops, and from the sin-steeped underworld, there screamed and surged and swept the many-graded, many-minded polyglot rebellion-spume.
Told in the East Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 1920
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HEMMED in amid the stifling stench and babel of the caravansary, secluded by the very denseness of the many-minded swarm, five other Rajputs and Mahommed Gunga - all six, according to their turbans, followers of Islam - discussed matters that appeared to bring them little satisfaction.
Rung Ho Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 1914
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From the rat-infested slums, from the hot shadows and the mazy back-bazaars, from temples, store-houses, shops, and from the sin-steeped underworld, there screamed and surged and swept the many-graded, many-minded polyglot rebellion-spume.
Told in the East Talbot Mundy 1909
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This marvelous drug, often called Nepenthe from one of its attributes, has naturally aroused much curiosity among the many-minded readers of
Homer's Odyssey A Commentary Denton Jaques Snider 1883
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