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Definition of mixed blessing in English: mixed blessingnoun A thing that has disadvantages as well as advantages. having children so early in their marriage was a mixed blessing Example sentencesExamples - Marriage can be a mixed blessing, a fact that is perhaps reflected in the country's rising divorce rate.
- The fame may have been a mixed blessing; such was the level of press intrusion into her life she had to make a public plea to be allowed to receive her cancer treatment in private.
- These new technologies look like a mixed blessing.
- Furthermore, longer life span may be a mixed blessing if people spend most of their final decades struck down by debilitating diseases.
- Increasingly, gay marriage has received such mixed blessings from communities of color.
- A milkman, dogged all his life by poverty, he has five lovely daughters, which is something of a mixed blessing.
- I had known that it would happen, and I had known that there was nothing to stop it; my gift is a mixed blessing.
- A reputation for sanity will always be a mixed blessing.
- I will be teaching four senior classes for the rest of the year - no juniors which is a mixed blessing, and will be spending the time all in my own room.
- The vegetables were welcome; the meat was a bit of a mixed blessing.
- For inmates around the country, every opportunity to call friends and family is a mixed blessing.
- For those of us who live in the real world, an all-female household can be a very mixed blessing.
- This brought to mind just how similar these two presidents are and how much of a mixed blessing their presence within the world community may be.
- The rest gets a bit monotonous, which makes the set's length (almost three hours) a mixed blessing.
- We don't treat the heat, as Mediterranean peoples do, as an inevitable feature of the summer and a mixed blessing to be treated with circumspection.
- That kind of success for a first novel, of course, can be a mixed blessing.
- Winter also had the mixed blessings of dark mornings and early sunsets.
- Living adjacent to a beautiful waterfront park is a mixed blessing.
- Overall it received a pretty mixed reception at its European launch, which is a mixed blessing: no harsh criticism but then no whoops of joy.
- Broadband has been a mixed blessing for the reasons described above - but not enough to make me go back to the days of 56k.
Definition of mixed blessing in US English: mixed blessingnounˈˌmiks(t) ˈˌblesiNGˈˌmɪks(t) ˈˌblɛsɪŋ A situation or thing that has disadvantages as well as advantages. having children so early in their marriage was a mixed blessing Example sentencesExamples - These new technologies look like a mixed blessing.
- Broadband has been a mixed blessing for the reasons described above - but not enough to make me go back to the days of 56k.
- The rest gets a bit monotonous, which makes the set's length (almost three hours) a mixed blessing.
- This brought to mind just how similar these two presidents are and how much of a mixed blessing their presence within the world community may be.
- The vegetables were welcome; the meat was a bit of a mixed blessing.
- I had known that it would happen, and I had known that there was nothing to stop it; my gift is a mixed blessing.
- For those of us who live in the real world, an all-female household can be a very mixed blessing.
- Living adjacent to a beautiful waterfront park is a mixed blessing.
- Increasingly, gay marriage has received such mixed blessings from communities of color.
- Marriage can be a mixed blessing, a fact that is perhaps reflected in the country's rising divorce rate.
- A milkman, dogged all his life by poverty, he has five lovely daughters, which is something of a mixed blessing.
- I will be teaching four senior classes for the rest of the year - no juniors which is a mixed blessing, and will be spending the time all in my own room.
- Furthermore, longer life span may be a mixed blessing if people spend most of their final decades struck down by debilitating diseases.
- A reputation for sanity will always be a mixed blessing.
- The fame may have been a mixed blessing; such was the level of press intrusion into her life she had to make a public plea to be allowed to receive her cancer treatment in private.
- We don't treat the heat, as Mediterranean peoples do, as an inevitable feature of the summer and a mixed blessing to be treated with circumspection.
- For inmates around the country, every opportunity to call friends and family is a mixed blessing.
- Overall it received a pretty mixed reception at its European launch, which is a mixed blessing: no harsh criticism but then no whoops of joy.
- That kind of success for a first novel, of course, can be a mixed blessing.
- Winter also had the mixed blessings of dark mornings and early sunsets.
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