conflicting

[conflicting]

Feeling at odds? In total disagreement? Then you're probably dealing with something conflicting.

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Adjective S.
in disagreement; "the figures are at odds with our findings"; "contradictory attributes of unjust justice and loving vindictiveness"- John Morley

Adjective S.
on bad terms; "they were usually at odds over politics"; "conflicting opinions"


p. pr. & vb. n.
of Conflict

a.
Being in conflict or collision, or in opposition; contending; contradictory; incompatible; contrary; opposing.


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Usage Examples

Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence. To survive in the world, we have to act in concert with others, but to survive as ourselves, rather than simply as cogs in a wheel, we have to act alone.

Most fathers don't see the war within the daughter, her struggles with conflicting images of the idealized and flawed father, her temptation both to retreat to Daddy's lap and protection and to push out of his embrace to that of beau and the world beyond home.

Cathy was the first widely syndicated humor strip created by a woman. The strip was pretty revolutionary at the time not only because it starred a female, but also because it was so emotionally honest about all the conflicting feelings many women had in 1976.

I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.

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Other Usage Examples

Put two or three men in positions of conflicting authority. This will force them to work at loggerheads, allowing you to be the ultimate arbiter.

I see that the path of progress has never taken a straight line, but has always been a zigzag course amid the conflicting forces of right and wrong, truth and error, justice and injustice, cruelty and mercy.

In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action.

According to the U.S. Census, the most common reason people give for not voting is that they were too busy or had conflicting work or school schedules.

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