ambiguousness

Example Sentences

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He was equally guided by the refrain “I want to tell you how much I love you” and the ambiguousness of who that “you” might be.

From New York Times • Jan. 6, 2023

Rannells, who has been moving between the stage and screen, said the ambiguousness of production that night had him thinking passersby suspected something else was in play.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 22, 2016

A nameless ecstacy thrilled through my frame when any new proof occurred that the ambiguousness of my behaviour was the cause.

From Wieland: or, the Transformation, an American Tale by Brown, Charles Brockden

I was deeply impressed with the ambiguousness which would necessarily rest upon my motives, and the scrutiny to which they would be subjected.

From Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 by Brown, Charles Brockden

"Have you anything to tell me?" cried he impatiently; for nothing causes a more disagreeable vibration of the nerves than this perception of ambiguousness in familiar persons or affairs.

From The Marble Faun - Volume 2 The Romance of Monte Beni by Hawthorne, Nathaniel