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mixed reaction
n. 1 The state of diverse reception, when there are many who praise something while there are also many who dislike it. 2 Used with irony to mean an unmixed reaction, usually opposition.
Usage examples of "mixed reaction".
That's hard to justify, and one reason for the mixed reaction in South Florida to the special way Orlando Hernandez was treated.
Dane said, and felt in himself a curious mixed reaction: on the one hand a desire to find the poor scared Mekhar, who was, after all, of Cliff-Climber's kind if not of his class.
He was still thinking over his own distinctly mixed reaction to the weapon's capabilities.