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  • adjective Tending towards conflict
  • adjective conflicting

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Examples

  • Mrs. Anton, a twenty-three-year-old college student, was striving to emancipate herself from a highly dependent yet conflictful relationship with her widowed mother.

    Planned Short-Term Treatment RICHARD A. WELLS 1994

  • His original sin, therefore, cannot be like ordinary human sinning, the result of a proneness to sin that is inherent in a conflictful nature.

    The Angels and Us Mortimer J. Adler 1982

  • This pre - cosmic vitiation of the whole “life-force” was respon - sible both for human evil and for the conflictful and wasteful aspects of nonhuman nature.

    COSMIC FALL R. W. HEPBURN 1968

  • Nevertheless, because of forty years of harsh and conflictful public life, I think I am not answerable for "those" people.

    Victims of Hiroshima Lifton, Robert Jay 1968

  • Only after the client has gained reasonable facility and confidence in coping with the situation are more difficult or conflictful elements introduced into the antagonist’s role.

    Planned Short-Term Treatment RICHARD A. WELLS 1994

  • The consequence of Adam’s original sin is manifested in the conflictful nature inherited by all his descendants.

    The Angels and Us Mortimer J. Adler 1982

  • If fallen man’s wounded and conflictful nature explains his proneness to ordinary wrong-doing, how much more readily does it account for his proneness to sin.

    The Angels and Us Mortimer J. Adler 1982

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