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A partly positive and partly negative reaction to something, as in I have mixed feelings about this trip; I'd love to go but don't want to ride in that tiny car .

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I have very mixed feelings about what the event has become, which is just one big frat party.

And I worry that the world will have very mixed feelings about him.

Valery, Alexey, Sergei, and Vitaliy had mixed feelings about that operation.

Viewers may share my mixed feelings about the coverage itself.

Divine had mixed feelings about Pink Flamingos—it made him famous yet notorious, and difficult to get work as a real actor.

It was with mixed feelings of joy and regret that the regiment embarked on the steamer for New Orleans.

Their father looked upon them with mixed feelings of tender pride in them, and regret for his own lost youth.

From that first-night performance of Cordelia's much-talked-of drama Hartley carried away many mixed feelings.

The arrival of the mission was necessarily regarded with mixed feelings by the inhabitants of the Transvaal.

Meanwhile Mr. Mackenzie's success was viewed with very mixed feelings at the Cape.

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