conflicted

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Battlestar Galalctica's Mary McDonnell has made the shortlist in her category will only make it more devastating whenif she doesn't wind up on the final roll call of nominees; her President Laura Roslin is by turns brash, wise, sexy, powerful, petty, and conflicted -- in other words, deliciously fleshed out.

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  1. adjective Usage Problem Made uneasy by conflicting impulses.
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    The adjective conflicted is most often associated with the jargon of pop psychology. Almost the entire Usage Panel (92 percent) rejects its use in the sentence Caught between loyalty to old employees and a recognition of the need to cut costs, many managers are conflicted about the reorganization plan.

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  • My interests are conflicted, all right, David thought, but is it because of Hannah? —  Ledbetter, Suzann - North of Clever
  • After he'd picked up the bills and coins left next to the empty plate and deposited them in the register, he returned to me, his expression conflicted. —  Muller, Marcia - [15] Till the Butchers cut him down.htm
  • Advice given by representatives who sell their company's retirement products "can be conflicted, there's no question," he said. —  InvestmentNews.com Latest Headlines
  • Feeling ethically conflicted, my curiosity got the better of me and I dug deeper. —  pfblogs.org: The Ad-Free Personal Finance Blogs Aggregator
  • Battlestar Galalctica's Mary McDonnell has made the shortlist in her category will only make it more devastating whenif she doesn't wind up on the final roll call of nominees; her President Laura Roslin is by turns brash, wise, sexy, powerful, petty, and conflicted -- in other words, deliciously fleshed out. —  Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
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