How to Use conflicted in a Sentence

conflicted

adjective
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  • I'm conflicted about the prospect of our only child going away to college.
  • She was still conflicted about her ex-husband's remarriage.
  • This was a rigged trial by a conflicted judge who was corrupt.
    — Lisa Hagen, Hartford Courant, 31 May 2024
  • Cities, at the best of times, are conflicted and messy, beautiful, and cruel.
    — Carolyn Wells, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
  • Allen and her father, though, have had a more conflicted relationship.
    — Tim Diovanni, Dallas News, 1 July 2020
  • Myers, who is the state's first black nominee for governor, was spurred by the protests to reveal something of his conflicted past.
    — Chris Sikich, The Indianapolis Star, 5 June 2020
  • That gives it the potential to alter a conflicted equilibrium.
    — David Smilde, The Conversation, 17 Apr. 2020
  • Some public health scientists publicly waved off the conflicted feelings of their colleagues, saying the country now confronts a stark moral choice.
    — Michael Powell, BostonGlobe.com, 7 July 2020
  • But child-abuse pediatricians may have a conflicted perspective.
    — Stephanie Clifford, The Atlantic, 20 Aug. 2020
  • When Rowe called her grandma on a recent afternoon ahead of a family committee vote on the reunion, Davis seemed conflicted.
    — Michael E. Miller, Washington Post, 3 Aug. 2020
  • On August 19, you’re struck with conflicted wishes and an aversion to responsibility.
    — Jennifer Culp, Them, 15 July 2024
  • And so, in the moist confines of his conflicted young mind, the spores of hypocrisy find fertile soil.
    — Ron Charles, Washington Post, 29 Nov. 2022
  • The point of art is to reflect something that feels true and conflicted!
    — Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 16 Aug. 2021
  • Hunter and Beau grew up conflicted about wealth—the old Biden-Finnegan divide.
    — Adam Entous, The New Yorker, 15 Aug. 2022
  • Or maybe Nagy is truly conflicted on what the best move is here.
    — Dan Wiederer, chicagotribune.com, 21 Sep. 2021
  • His father seemed to want to dispose of the set, but both men seemed conflicted.
    — Washington Post, 5 May 2022
  • Even in the most conflicted of passages, there was beauty and warmth.
    — Zachary Lewis, cleveland, 13 Nov. 2020
  • Here, Black actors would play the good guy, the bad guy and the morally conflicted guy, who were often the same guy in one.
    — New York Times, 2 June 2022
  • There's a lot of conflicted feelings out there, and I'm included in that.
    — Jennifer Griffin, Fox News, 11 Sep. 2021
  • Loving the Masters is the most conflicted pleasure in sports.
    — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 6 Apr. 2021
  • The Ravens’ 20-19 loss left Smith feeling even more conflicted about his future.
    — Jonas Shaffer, baltimoresun.com, 6 Jan. 2022
  • The appeals courts now have to decide whether the conflicts were enough to warrant wiping out the rulings by the conflicted judges.
    — Joe Palazzolo, WSJ, 1 Mar. 2022
  • Your conflicted feelings are keeping both of you in place.
    — Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 11 June 2021
  • How conflicted is his dad, who also is his coach but sees the larger picture?
    — Richard Obert, The Arizona Republic, 13 Oct. 2022
  • Sam Reid will play the much less conflicted vampire Lestat.
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 25 Aug. 2021
  • But Fleegle and others feel deeply conflicted about antlers’ sway over us.
    — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 2 Aug. 2022
  • Turns out, many people had the same conflicted feelings.
    — Terry Pluto, cleveland, 5 Aug. 2023
  • As someone who has played the game at the highest levels, Gross is a bit conflicted on the future of this AI invasion.
    — Annie Brown, Forbes, 10 Nov. 2021
  • Kessler is Butcher’s dark side, Becca is his light, and the fate of the world now rests on the twisted, conflicted conscience of Billy Butcher.
    — Alex Raiman, EW.com, 4 July 2024
  • Some will feel conflicted, figuring that a 7-0 run through this slate will keep Helton around longer than he’s earned.
    — J. Brady McCollough Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 31 Oct. 2020

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