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  • adverb In a conflicting fashion.

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conflicting +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • In fact, the same rapid switching could also have occurred during my coffee cup test, and my direct experience of acting conflictingly at the same time is an erroneous interpretation, even though it was directly experienced.

    Backing Into an Evidentiary Standard for ID 2007

  • In particular, "War Photographer: Documenting Life in Conflict", records some of most atrocious realities from Iraq Detainees to the Baghdad ER in a conflictingly beautiful style and format.

    Kimberly Brooks: The Art of War and Summer 2008

  • Men array themselves in hostile camps on questions of theory and belief, not merely because they are variously and conflictingly informed, but far more because they are mentally unlike, their minds having been prepared by structural differentiation to seize upon different views and to cherish opposing convictions.

    Introduction to the Science of Sociology Robert Ezra Park 1926

  • The soul in its own rational nature (for our present purpose we fuse together the two terms psyche and nous, distinguished by Aristotle, into one -- the soul) is simple: man is compound, and, being conflictingly compounded, he has to drive a pair of steeds in his body, one ignoble

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913

  • Pen pictures by British soldiers vividly describe the battle somewhat conflictingly.

    The Story of the Great War, Volume III (of 12) The War Begins, Invasion of Belgium, Battle of the Marne Francis Trevelyan Miller 1902

  • And yet there shone through all these conflictingly peculiar eccentricities

    The Shellback's Progress In the Nineteenth Century Walter Runciman 1892

  • So long as several ideas are conflictingly attended to, they hinder each other.

    The Nature of Goodness George Herbert Palmer 1887

  • The strife thus indicated between a Deity and a Devil, both subordinate to the unmoved ETERNAL, was the Persian solution of the problem of evil, their answer to the staggering question, why pleasure and pain, benevolence and malignity, are so conflictingly mingled in the works of nature and in the soul of man.

    The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life William Rounseville Alger 1863

  • Note: [2.4] Such the epitaphic comments, conflictingly spoken or thought, of a miscellaneous company, who, assembled

    The Confidence-Man 1857

  • Such the epitaphic comments, conflictingly spoken or thought, of a miscellaneous company, who, assembled on the overlooking, cross-wise balcony at the forward end of the upper deck near by, had not witnessed preceding occurrences.

    The Confidence-Man Herman Melville 1855

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