How to Use conflicted in a Sentence

conflicted

adjective

• I'm conflicted about the prospect of our only child going away to college.
• She was still conflicted about her ex-husband's remarriage.
• 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
• Even people who do pull the lever feel conflicted about it.
  — Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 20 June 2013
• 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
• Cities, at the best of times, are conflicted and messy, beautiful, and cruel.
  — Carolyn Wells, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
• It’s hard to imagine that Wentz, deep down, isn’t at least a little conflicted.
  — Les Bowen, Philly.com, 5 Feb. 2018
• But what is cool is our William Tell is also very conflicted.
  — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Sep. 2024
• Father Alexandre is a conflicted man in a way most of us can't relate to.
  — Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country, 22 Jan. 2019
• But what about the nervous and conflicted 21-year-old rookie?
  — Dave Kallmann, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 21 June 2019
• This was a rigged trial by a conflicted judge who was corrupt.
  — Lisa Hagen, Hartford Courant, 31 May 2024
• There's a lot of conflicted feelings out there, and I'm included in that.
  — Jennifer Griffin, Fox News, 11 Sep. 2021
• This set the stage for Hall’s breakthrough work, which applied a zoom lens to the conflicted national mood.
  — Jessica Loudis, New Republic, 27 Sep. 2017
• New Orleans was a conflicted place for the gay community at the time of the fire, Fieseler says.
  — Rebecca Santana, Fox News, 4 July 2018
• The process laid bare how deeply conflicted white Southerners were about the topic.
  — Gregory S. Schneider, Washington Post, 14 June 2019
• 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
• Tough to properly convey the conflicted feelings one has when one is in a war zone.
  — Jon Niccum, kansascity, 6 Sep. 2017
• 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 many feel conflicted about the decision to cast Scott as Jasmine.
  — Suzannah Weiss, Teen Vogue, 16 July 2017
• But Fleegle and others feel deeply conflicted about antlers’ sway over us.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 2 Aug. 2022
• Caine’s character does indeed come across as a trans person whose conflicted identity leads him to kill.
  — Chris Vognar, Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 20 Dec 2024