How to use "ambiguous" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "ambiguous" in popular movie and book plots

(It is left ambiguous whether she is telling the truth) The story moves ahead several years, with Cal and Aron as teenagers. - East of Eden (miniseries)
As she begins to work as a babysitter for a rich family with three children, strange events start happening, resulting in an ambiguous relationship with the father, Lee Sang-Won (Kim Min-Joon). - Babysitter (TV series)
Patrick enters the house and attacks her in an ambiguous encounter that blurs the line between rape and consent — but Vincent, who was already in the house, sneaks up behind Patrick as he is on top of Michèle, and bashes him in the back of the skull. - Elle (film)
Because of her love for her husband, Nina accepts his ambiguous gift: a slimming treatment at Brides-les-Bains, considered "the last hope of the fat". - Mince alors!
And Jude, of ambiguous ethnicity, works as a lawyer. - A Little Life
Be it mistreatment from their fabulous and beautiful cast member counterparts, ambiguous direction from the director Trick, or even the threat of looming unemployment at the day job, the misfits boldly fight the demons. - Chop Socky Boom
Detective Oh Gu-tak will use any means necessary to catch criminals, and his ambiguous moral line often results in him getting suspended for excessive force. - Bad Guys (TV series)
Meanwhile, a German patrol, commanded by the ambiguous Lieutenant Peter Braun, arrives in Saint-Martin to put an end to the secret escape route of the Jews. - Belle and Sebastian (film)
The film is ambiguous about whether Agatha is imagining events, or whether there really are things going on that she must be seeing. - She Must Be Seeing Things
They are too ambiguous and contradictory to be useful. - The Key (short story)
In the meantime, Ninon and Kira's relationship is rocked by several events, including Kira's brief relationship with the school nurse, Mio Shitara, who seeks solace after her fiance's death, Kira's estrangement from his tsundere friend Kazuhiro Yabe who once became the ringleader of Ninon's bullies until he humbles himself and falls in love with her, as well as Kira's ambiguous relationship with Rei Uchida, although she is revealed to be a mere sociopath who does not like indecisive people and later befriends Ninon after the misunderstanding is cleared. - Kyō no Kira-kun
However, because Weixiong has an eye disease, he carries on an ambiguous relationship with Yuqing. - World at Your Feet (TV series)
He then phones home and makes an ambiguous call, instructing the person to get everyone else out of the house because he has figured out what happened. - Who Killed Lucy Beale?
It is left ambiguous as to whether he will return to resume his place at the center of his New York circle. - Big Fish, Little Fish (play)
Tailed by the Secret Service in a suffocating and ambiguous Rome, Diego sets out looking for the man, uncovering a shockingly sad truth. - The Father and the Foreigner
The main point of tension in the novel is Sanshirō’s ambiguous relationship with Mineko. - Sanshirō (novel)
The question as to whether the hallucination Tom is having is a collective hallucination, shared by the other psychoanalysts, remains ambiguous throughout the narrative. - The Verificationist
However life under the Nazis is ambiguous and the priest must walk a tightrope (metaphorically) between faithful Christian service and loyalty to his country and people. - The Priest (film)
Conversations between the two emphasize their tense, understated and ambiguous relationship. - Wings (1966 film)
Forced into a well-timed “vacation” he never asked for Josh finds himself in Bangkok with a price on his head, a morally ambiguous brother who is knee deep in the Thai mafia, and a propensity for getting shot at. - A Stranger in Paradise
After more sexual adventures, she finally escapes, though it remains ambiguous as to whether she experienced was real or another of her masochistic dreams. - Flower and Snake (2004 film)
The third examines Caster Semenya and her gender-testing at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics, relating it to Dionysus' ambiguous gender and Pentheus' disguise as a woman. - The Lightning Child
On the bottom it says "turn over," and after doing so, she smiles at what she reads, though the message itself was left ambiguous at the end. - Before We Go
Each character recounts their recollections of Lula as Strike comes to realize that the circumstances of her death are more ambiguous than he had imagined. - The Cuckoo's Calling
It is left ambiguous as to whether or not the events in the film happened, what Kyra's part in it was, and whether or not the faceless entity exists. - Kolobos
She writes to him to find out more about the novel's ambiguous ending. - The Fault in Our Stars (film)
After initially being elated, Louis begins to feel inadequate for somewhat ambiguous reasons. - Populaire (film)
In addition, Sam also has an ambiguous relationship with a triad member named Keung Yung (Louis Cheung) who later caused Sam to end up in jail. - Brother's Keeper (2013 TV series)
However, Ziva's motives for defending Ari become ambiguous when she communicates with him without informing anyone in the NCIS office and her conversation indicates a personal connection to him. - Kill Ari
It is left ambiguous as to what is real and what is a delusion, and whether Makoto has escaped to reality or still is trapped in his delusion. - Never 7: The End of Infinity
An ambiguous group termed “the people” “came and clapped her into prison” as they believed that she was at fault for the Prince’s absence. - The Lady Daffodilia
The year is not given, or rather left ambiguous at 18—, but everything takes place over a three-day period around June 2 on a Friday. - The Beetle (novel)
The ambiguous ending of the film shows James getting out of bed, going into Heather's bedroom, and telling her to be quiet. - Unspeakable (2000 film)
The identity of Madame D's murderer is left ambiguous (though earlier in the film a suspicious bottle labeled "strychnine" can be seen on Jopling's desk, likely having committed the murder under Dmitri's orders). - The Grand Budapest Hotel
However, the plot is ambiguous from this point; one interpretation holds that in times of yore, Anna would lure men into worship, causing them to murder those close to them or starve themselves at the feet of her statue, and after she seduced the protagonist, he murdered his own wife and children for threatening his relationship with Anna. - Anna (video game)
Her life seems to have included ambiguous abuse, possibly incestuous, involving her father and her older brother Bruce, but it's unclear if Becca thinks there is anything wrong. - Actress in the House
The two maintain an ambiguous relationship. - Summer Brothers
They travel by bus to Chania, where Colette visits Rydal's room while her husband sleeps; it is left ambiguous whether they have sex. - The Two Faces of January (film)
This ending has an unknown outcome for Lauren, as its ambiguous as to whether she survived or not after falling from the radio tower. - Slender: The Arrival
However, Columbanus' own motives are a good deal more ambiguous in the television adaptation. - Cadfael (TV series)
Gervais has, in fact, remained carefully ambiguous as to whether Derek is intellectually challenged, autistic, or otherwise. - Derek (TV series)
At another physical therapy session, Joe and Quinn discuss their ambiguous relationship, and decide that it is "something new". - Dance with Somebody (Glee)
The trio travel to Tunis, to meet with another of Molly's informants, the ambiguous (or morals and intent) Jean-Pierre Desperois. - The Intergalactic Nemesis
leaving it ambiguous if any of them will survive the impact. - Head On (1980 film)
The film ends with an ambiguous act by the heroine, her motives unclear. - Ninety Degrees in the Shade
The novel ends on several ambiguous notes. - The Alchemy of Stone
Other fruits include Passion, a sensible passion fruit and Orange's love interest played by iJustine, an arrogant grapefruit (voiced by Robert Jennings), a tiny miserable and frustrated but hot-blooded apple known as Midget Apple (though he prefers the name Little Apple), a happy-go-lucky and slightly eccentric marshmallow of ambiguous gender, and an elderly lemon named Grandpa Lemon, all of whom were not main characters until later episodes. - The Annoying Orange
Agnes turns to the camera, half-smiling, leaving Mi-ja's fate on an ambiguous note. - Poetry (film)
They start an ambiguous friendship – though they see each other as equals, they are unable to work together because their loyalties lie elsewhere. - Relic of an Emissary
In an ambiguous ending, word comes to the camp that the Shah of Iran and his wife are asking that he be freed. - Lost in Siberia
However, looking at it as an ambiguous manifestation of different realities, a variety of possible interpretations of the same events in different circumstances and at different levels of perception, the picture appears as a complex and comprehensive study of the ways of perception, interpretation and reproduction of reality. - The Man Who Lies
The Christ family's rural estate is run by a sinister housekeeper named Kast and her sexually ambiguous son, Gabriel. - Chinese Roulette
Roman, despite sustaining head injuries of ambiguous severity and being placed into a body cast, is eventually told by hospital staff that Hanka had called the hospital earlier in the day to say that she would be returning from Zakopane immediately. - Dekalog: Nine
In an ambiguous scene in a laboratory, the doctor seems to come to the conclusion that Andrzej's disease is progressing (although the scene seems to suggest that Andrzej could be recovering). - Dekalog: Two
Having faced a degree a controversy over her first novel, Life, Love and Assimilation, Abdullah is unsure how her second novel will be received: "It's ultra violent and ultra sexual, and there are some morally ambiguous sex scenes in there, so I don't know how people will react to that," she says on her website. - Child's Play (novel)
Louise makes him return to the Pension Mimosas and find a job, but she now develops an ambiguous affection for him. - Pension Mimosas
He asks if Gethen/Winter will be a member of the Ekumen in five years, expecting that the foretellers will give him an ambiguous response, but he is answered "yes". - The Left Hand of Darkness
In addition to assault, ambiguous charges are also leveled towards him that are serious enough to prevent Muna from getting him released. - Amreeka
Paul's ultimate fate is left ambiguous as the story ends with a Magnum,I. - Three Kings (Family Guy)
It is left ambiguous whether or not the nuke went off. - The Incident (Lost)
All the recipients are concerned about him – Tom tells Sheila that he will try and track George down and Diana also sets off in her car to do the same but for a different reason: There was nothing ambiguous in the cards; the double-entendres on one side only helped to underline the plainness of the statement on the other. - Foreign Land (novel)
He acknowledges that although the incidence has ambiguous moral significance, he personally feels that whatever happened, happened for the best. - Unnaipol Oruvan (2009 film)
As the play unravels, the cut is presented as a painful, immoral, controversial and ambiguous surgery, that cures a patient or victim from desire, or maybe even personality. - The Cut (play)
It is ambiguous as to which nurse is specifically Eliza, which is further enunciated by a recurring voice-over that states ‘I am not Eliza’. - The Orchid Gardener
Max Beck, an Intersex person, tells the story of how he was born with ambiguous genitalia and then assigned female at birth. - Middle Sexes: Redefining He and She
Events are ambiguous a mysterious, but they unravel through the film. - Zay El Naharda
As the story progresses, the ambiguous concept of 'hyperpraxis' is introduced, as what seems to be a supernatural form of teleportation. - Air (comics)
This revelation and the ambiguous prophesied descriptions eventually showed differences not matching Vin's character. - Mistborn: The Hero of Ages
The film ends with the ambiguous death of both Mardar and Moudan, leaving the viewer to decide if it was an accident or suicide. - Suzhou River (film)
IGN has stated that the Fortune Hunters are "wonderfully ambiguous […] in the moral sense", qualifying that "It's always great to see heroes […] who aren't too good to be true". - Crimson Skies (video game)
He also notes that the facts of this incident cannot be found in any written record but only in the memories of those who actually witnessed it, and further acknowledges that although the incident has ambiguous moral significance, he personally feels that whatever happened, happened for the best. - A Wednesday!
While the film was originally written to end on the dour note of the mother euthanizing her son, director Zhang Yuan eventually opted for a more open-ended and ambiguous conclusion. - Mama (1990 film)
The story is mostly told in flashback as Drake recounts the circumstances of the voyage to Queen Elizabeth Although it is clear how Drake interprets the events that led to Doughty's execution, the depicted scenes paint a more ambiguous tale. - Drake's Venture
The deliberately ambiguous circumstance in which the intense discussion between Royā and Jahāngir takes place, greatly enhances the power of the words exchanged between the two characters. - Unruled Paper (film)
The plan is thwarted and Cara strangles him to death and saves Sammy, but the fate of Sammy is left ambiguous as it is never revealed if the plan had worked or not. - Shelter (2010 film)
It is left ambiguous as to whether or not Adam and Jenny have sex. - The Shape of Things
Unexpectedly, this ambiguous telegram arouses vigilance of the authorities and the police swiftly set up a case to investigate the so-called "Black Cannon Incident". - The Black Cannon Incident
Due to initially ambiguous reasons, he cannot return to the city that he has come from, and, having spent the previous month draining his savings in a hotel room, he is prepared to settle for any living arrangement, regardless of the conditions. - The Crusader (2007 film)
Buffy searches through the Watchers' diaries and is completely befuddled and upset because there are a few ambiguous references to her and absolutely nothing recorded about the Slayer army she created. - Time of Your Life (Buffy comic)
The film then returns to 1959 and fades on Heath walking past her (breaking off ties with her and secretly tormented by Crowder's prophesy and his own forebodings of her future career) and Margaret's impassive, steely but ambiguous reaction to this. - The Long Walk to Finchley
” Cat consults the I Ching, which brings more ambiguous bad news. - The Secret Order of the Gumm Street Girls
Colman in his defence could have pleaded that he had acted throughout the exchange of correspondence on the Duke's express orders, and he was clearly tempted to do so, but at the last moment he seems to have suffered from a fatal hesitation (perhaps he still hoped for a pardon), and took refuge in evasion and ambiguous remarks such as "I might possibly make use of the Duke's name; it is possible, they say I did it". - Edward Colman
Unlike previous Touhou games where the multiple endings are numbered, leading to ambiguous canonicity of each ending, Scarlet Weather Rhapsody does not number its endings and all story routes are considered as canon. - Scarlet Weather Rhapsody
Steve plans to move to Slovenia with Jean-Claude to start a business, but it is ambiguous as to whether they actually make it. - Steve + Sky
The Doctor's reply to Rose's statement of love is specified to Rose but left unheard; Davies deliberately left the reply ambiguous when he wrote "Doomsday". - Journey's End (Doctor Who)
The story has an ambiguous climax when Lisa is offered a modelling contract. - Fat Chance (Margaret Clark novel)
The book centers on the battle of wits and the ambiguous relationship developing between U-boat ace Otto Kruger, leader of the captured Germans, and Ian Fleming in his real-life World War II role as an intelligence officer which would later inspire the James Bond books. - A Cage of Eagles
But it is left ambiguous if the family photo is real or just a figment of Julia's imagination of her fantasy world. - Julia and Julia
The ending is left ambiguous as the last shot of the film is a silencer aimed at Tung. - Fatal Move
Whether Mladen is dead or just injured is left ambiguous as the film ends. - Klopka
Denise also receives some ambiguous warnings from psychic ex-actress Carla (Caren Larkey) who predicted the crash. - Sole Survivor (1983 film)
The film ends on an ambiguous tone, as Esteban tries to comfort his father, roles inverted, and the camera centers on Martín, leaning against the wall, looking more hopeless than ever. - The Truce (1974 film)
Luke angrily protests the story's ambiguous ending, but then he receives a letter from Doc Brown, a reference to the ending of Back to the Future Part II. - Something, Something, Something, Dark Side
However, even as Zhilin is saying this, at the end of the novel it is left ambiguous whether he thinks he will be able to resist using the "slug" again. - The Final Circle of Paradise
The original 1969 album was much more ambiguous in its specific plot points than the stage musical and film versions. - The Who's Tommy
It is ambiguous whether this is because she is Luis's convert and he claims her spiritually, or whether his sense of spiritual ownership has developed into a sexual desire for her. - The Lariat
The story ends on an ambiguous note as Ana is potentially revived, and they seek to create a new universe by means of caesura to live in. - Tomorrow and Tomorrow (novel)
The novel ends on an ambiguous note as the Abbot prays for the first time in years, but in the face of the abandonment of their traditional way of life. - Catholics (novel)
This ambiguous choice somehow leads to him and Anna reuniting happily. - Mr. Nobody (film)
In the movie, the dialogue is ambiguous as to whether the spirit inside Abby is actually the powerful orisha, Eshu. - Abby (film)
In the ambiguous scene, Nora attempts to enter only to accidentally fall unconscious. - Nightwood
Continuing the theme of Life on Mars, throughout the series, it is ambiguous to both Drake and the audience whether the character is dead or alive in the present day and to what extent her actions influence future events. - Ashes to Ashes (TV series)
With these words, Susanne sets an ambiguous covert plot into motion, alerting the members of the terrorist cell of an upcoming meeting. - The Third Generation (1979 film)
Atia's look, however, is ambiguous as she watches a triumphal float pass by with the effigies of Mark Anthony and Cleopatra, her lost love and his seducer, as glances are exchanged between Agrippa and Octavia. - De Patre Vostro (About Your Father)
Lucius Vorenus, who has been telling Caesarion ambiguous stories about Caesarion's father (the boy believes his father to be Julius Caesar though Vorenus is speaking of Titus Pullo), chooses to stay in Alexandria with Antony. - Deus Impeditio Esuritori Nullus (No God Can Stop a Hungry Man)
The movie leaves it ambiguous whether Day, shot several times, will survive his wounds. - The Mouthpiece
Nonetheless there is a subtle undertone of something sinister in the Baron's attitude, further emphasized by veiled, ambiguous warnings from the ville's sec boss, Harry Guiteau, as well as the extreme security measures in place throughout the ville. - Cold Asylum
The flashbacks portray Baxter — whose guilt or innocence is left ambiguous — taunting Johnson during the interrogation, insinuating that he secretly wants to commit the sort of sex crimes he investigates. - The Offence
The novel is notable for the complexity of Durham's imagined world, one in which political, economic, mythological and morally ambiguous forces all influence the fates of the ethnically and culturally diverse population. - Acacia: The War with the Mein
Most notably, Edwards – who was the main human antagonist during The Sentinels – has been reinterpreted as a more ambiguous character. - Robotech: Prelude to the Shadow Chronicles
He appears to have ambiguous feelings about the direction of his life, while she seems more adjusted to her life choices. - Conversations with Other Women
The ship also encounters shadowy deep-space life forms of ambiguous intelligence, who are only visible from S-space. - Between the Strokes of Night
Crawford's closest aid and successor, Kevin Vacit, continues the search and establishes an ambiguous relationships with the rogue telepaths who refuse to join the tightly regulated Corps. - Babylon 5: Dark Genesis – The Birth of the Psi Corps
Meanwhile, Marie grows tired of Woyzeck and turns her attentions to a handsome drum major, who in an ambiguous scene taking place in Marie's bedroom, sleeps with her. - Woyzeck (1979 film)
There he becomes a conflicting personage of ambiguous sexuality. - Aphrodite, the Garden of the Perfumes
The extent of Tolyan's love for his new family remains ambiguous throughout the film and provides one of the more compelling elements of the story. - The Thief (1997 film)
So realistic are these fantasies that in one ambiguous instance, Morosgoványi sleeps with and impregnates the lieutenant's wife and "wakes up" to find himself engaged in an act of sodomy with a slaughtered pig. - Taxidermia
It is left ambiguous to the reader if Landsmen is planning to expose Hertz's involvement in Shpilman's murder or the complex messianic conspiracy. - The Yiddish Policemen's Union
Afterwards, in an ambiguous ending, Andrew plays Wagner downstairs alone and seems to celebrate, while Dale gazes forlornly out the house's top-floor window. - Restraint (film)
Billy quickly becomes infatuated with Gabriel, but cannot figure out if Gabriel is really straight; Gabriel does little to help, continually sending ambiguous signals. - Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss
Sir Humphrey gives his usual ambiguous reply, which vexes the Minister. - The Writing on the Wall (Yes Minister)
Actual confirmation of her medical status is left ambiguous although there is a hint that her condition is fatal and communicable as she intentionally arranges to meet with her abuser and has rough sex with him. - Princesas
After Abdullah's death (The Ape Who Guards the Balance) the character appears to Amelia in dreams as a spiritual guide (although it is left ambiguous whether his appearance is a manifestation of Amelia's own subconsciousness or supernatural in nature). - Amelia Peabody series
They both realize that Eduin must have some connection to the old war between King Deslucido and Queen Taniquel Hastur-Acosta, Felicia's mother, but the records are so ambiguous that they are unable to learn anything conclusive. - A Flame in Hali
Sonny then begins to talk about his heroin addiction in somewhat ambiguous terms. - Sonny's Blues
Chabrol presents an ambiguous view of culture and class conflict in this film, which he jokingly called "the last Marxist film". - La Cérémonie
As the plot unfolds, the complex history of the characters and their past suggests why this is so, and the true nature of the tempestuous and somewhat ambiguous relationship between the two leads provides the backdrop for a melodrama that spans several generations of Japanese history. - Mirage of Blaze
On his way back to London, Ned fancies the idea of sending Rumbalo, and in fact the whole Circus, Smiley included, on Hansen's trail for them to witness true and unfaltering devotion, as he regarded Hansen as the champion of his ambiguous and conflicted emotions about his calling in life. - The Secret Pilgrim
The ending of the film is an ambiguous one. - Body Snatchers (1993 film)
Margherita kisses Caterina, but it's a bit ambiguous as to whether this is to imply sexuality or a pact between them, as she says, to never betray each other. - Caterina in the Big City
Meaning: These lines are the most ambiguous of the prophecy. - Gregor and the Prophecy of Bane
The climax is ambiguous as it is shown that Karuna does come, but just to take back the sleeping pills Amitabha had borrowed, which could either be Amitabha's hallucination as he wants her to come, or that Karuna has taken back the pills because she wants him to know that she wants to end her own life. - Kapurush
Hearing that an ambiguous Colonel Lefroy was killed during the Civil War, the two rightfully assumed it was Ferdinand and married. - Doctor Wortle's School
Fox, played by Stewart Granger, is a morally ambiguous character, an elegant gentleman intimately involved with smugglers. - Moonfleet (1955 film)
Then there's Lena (Aurelia Nolin), Gaspard's longtime semi-girlfriend whose ambiguous romantic attitude towards him keeps him in a state of permanent consternation. - A Summer's Tale
At this point, Liz's narrative ends and there is an extremely ambiguous epilogue written by dr Phillippa Horwood, who casts the whole of Liz's testimony in doubt by saying that Michael ("Mike") Rollins died on the sixteenth day in the Hole, that Liz was the "sole survivor" and that no records of the infamous Martyn exist, heavily implying that Liz created Martyn in order to place blame on someone other than herself. - After the Hole
Richelieu charges d'Artagnan with murder for killing a valuable servant of the State, but d'Artagnan shows him the signed death warrant which, due to its ambiguous phrasing, appears to authorize d'Artagnan's actions. - The Four Musketeers (1974 film)
An extremely ambiguous and vague voice-over explains that Tien "may find a way to cheat death again", and shows him with a fully-grown beard (which he does not have in the film) standing in front of a scarred golden Buddha statue, perhaps indicating reincarnation. - Ong Bak 2
The book leaves us with an ambiguous "The End. - Off Beat (comics)
It is left ambiguous whether his death was the result of drunk driving or suicide. - The Other Side of the Wind
The novel addresses questions of Jones's agenda and trustworthiness as well as the decidedly ambiguous benefits of individual precognition. - The World Jones Made
Each chapter carries the reader forward in time, but circles around the centre of Northampton, drawing in historical events and touchstones, before finally segueing into metafictional narrative in the closing chapter, as the author himself comments directly upon the previous chapter’s ambiguous closing line, before relating a personal (possibly fictional) anecdote about Northampton which relates a personal experience of local myth, and features an appearance by his daughter and son-in-law, the writers Leah Moore and John Reppion. - Voice of the Fire
He also altered the gender of Schnitzler's "Little Miss" to the sexually ambiguous "Young Thing" to introduce a homosexual element into his century of sexual congress. - Hello Again (musical)
Cryptic in nature and merging several genres, mainly sci-fi and drama with sporadic dark humor and surrealist touches, Red Cockroaches’ morally ambiguous incest story has gathered as many fans as detractors making it a modern underground cult movie. - Red Cockroaches
The identity of the protagonist, which is kept ambiguous in the in-game opening, varies between supplemental materials. - Shadow Dancer: The Secret of Shinobi
The trial does not go smoothly for Lisa, as Professor Frink (called by Clarice) gives ambiguous answers regarding God's existence, while a creationist scientist says that evolution cannot be real, as there is no proof of a "missing link" (depicted in a picture as a savage hominid, holding a rock over his head). - The Monkey Suit
Thomas firmly believes his life to have been "stolen" from him by Alfred Kant, born at the same time as Thomas, who Thomas believes was inadvertently switched with himself as a baby (characteristically, the film remains ambiguous as to whether this substitution ever actually happened, with Thomas' only substantiation being his apparent vivid memory of the day he was born). - Toto the Hero
Leaving the club, Loew has a brief, ambiguous encounter with Rachel: she admits to knowing him, but gives the impression that they have not been in contact for a long period. - Vampire's Kiss
At this point, the witch's dog Tom is present on stage and it is left ambiguous whether Frank remains a fully responsible moral agent in the act. - The Witch of Edmonton
Buffy, Xander, Willow, Dawn, and Dawn's new best friend, a young slayer named Belle travel to Rome to train new Slayers that are drawn to the infamous Immortal, Buffy is attracted to the Immortal, an ambiguous yet charismatic character, who she does not fully trust during the whole novel. - Queen of the Slayers
The show is set in the fictional Hyōno-chō, which is set in an ambiguous location featuring a rural-style train station, a department store, and a shopping district. - Kiteretsu Daihyakka
As with many Le Carré novels, the story has an ambiguous ending. - The Night Manager
Everything from simple suggestion to brute force is employed to try to get Jack to leave, but he doggedly refuses, bullying his way through numerous attempts on his life to arrive at the truth, leading to a violent and ambiguous conclusion. - Jack's Return Home
The main setting of the novel is the Central Registry of Births, Marriages and Deaths of some ambiguous and unnamed city. - All the Names
This volume is mostly a collection of unrelated episodes, although there are a few recurring links such as the much talked about but never seen wolf (except for an ambiguous fog shape) which reportedly killed skiers in the area. - Slaloms (Lapinot)
In an ambiguous ending, Agnès suggests that Marc shave his moustache so she can see him without it at least once. - La Moustache
Kate and Angel discuss the ambiguous ramifications of their victory for the neighborhood—although the killer zombies are gone, the criminals that they drove out are now free to return—and Kate confides in Angel that the job is making her crazy. - The Thin Dead Line
It is ambiguous why Jacob was trying to escape: to save himself and abandon his people to their fate; or to get first-hand information about the course of the war and return to the ghetto, thus redeeming himself for the lie about the radio. - Jacob the Liar
Glúmr swears an ambiguous oath on the temple ring, first in the local temple of Freyr. - Víga-Glúms saga
Also aiding the villains is Fake Crash, an imperfect and morally ambiguous alter ego duplicate of Crash. - Crash Bandicoot 2: N-Tranced
The game ends on an ambiguous cliffhanger because during his last fight he is fatally shot at close range but when the police arrive, his body is gone, indicating that he possibly survived. - Crime Life: Gang Wars
Meanwhile, Peter creates an idea by altering the play's script; he renames the show's antagonist to Irving Wallace instead of an ambiguous killer, and insists that everyone stay the night to begin immediate rehearsals with the new material. - Stage Fright (1987 film)
When Anne scolds Pierrot, he accuses her of adultery because he had witnessed Anne permitting a few ambiguous caresses from a family friend. - Caché (film)
The book closes on an ambiguous note, with Cassandra reminding herself that Simon has promised to return and closing her journal for good by reasserting her love for him. - I Capture the Castle
After an ambiguous interval of perhaps 100 days, Henderson receives word from his former producer, who is still in Sarajevo, that Emira's mother wants Emira back. - Welcome to Sarajevo
An obituary detailing the frequently ambiguous details of Rey's life ensues, where Rey's age (64) is revealed, along with his history of depression and the fact that Lauren had been Rey's third wife. - The Body Artist
However, their relationship was left somewhat ambiguous and unresolved. - C.A.T.S. Eyes
Skardon's two Deputy Controllers were Delly Lomas (Barbara Kellerman), who had an ambiguous personal relationship with Kyle, and Henry Tasker (Clifton Jones); however, in the second series, these two Deputies were replaced by Lynn Blake (Lisa Harrow), a former love interest of Kyle's (in the novelization of episodes from Series Two, the explanation given for the replacement of Delly Lomas was that she had been "relegated to obscurity in the Dundee Branch of the PCD"; no explanation was given for Henry Tasker's departure). - 1990 (TV series)
The novel ends with Adair presumed to have let Carney escape into the bush—though as with many of David Malouf's novels, the ending is ambiguous and the reader does not know for sure the fate of the hero. - The Conversations at Curlow Creek
Although the reader is clearly meant to see the parallels between Findley's Kurtz and Marlow and Conrad's original characters, the book is deliberately ambiguous about whether Lilah Kemp has really performed this act of literary magic, or is merely crazy enough to think she has. - Headhunter (novel)
Despite the bizarre murders of their crew and the various horrors lurking in the jungle, Bêlit and Conan still find time for a thorough theological discussion, comparing Conan's grim god Crom with Bêlit's more ambiguous Semite deities - all of which they discuss in between continuing their sexual romance which is alluded to by Howard as having sadomasochistic undertones. - Queen of the Black Coast
In what may be seen as deviation from the film's docudrama narrative, as Lizzie hears her verdict, flashbacks are shown of her actually committing the murders in the nude and bathing after each death, thus explaining why no blood was ever found on her or her clothes; however, it is left ambiguous whether Lizzie was actually reminiscing about the crimes or simply fantasizing how she herself would have disposed of her victims. - The Legend of Lizzie Borden
The portrait of Henry, a man appalled by the Oscar Wilde case while repressing his self and his sexuality, shows a complex and ambiguous man. - The Master (novel)
Talbot has a somewhat ambiguous role in Colley's fall; although he quickly assumes a mediator's role between the Reverend and Captain Anderson, initially he had presumed on his status by going on the quarterdeck without the captain's express invitation, about which the latter man was protective. - To the Ends of the Earth
Although Doyler is depicted as accepting his own sexuality, his response to the older man is ambiguous and ultimately MacMurrough fails to attract the boy. - At Swim, Two Boys
The ending is ambiguous as to whether Casey truly is the real Margaret. - Candleshoe
Mega Man Battle Network is set in an ambiguous year in the 21st century ("20XX AD") in an alternate reality to the original Mega Man series. - Mega Man Battle Network (video game)
Mega Man X2 is set in an ambiguous year during the 22nd century ("21XX") in which the world is populated both by humans and mechanical beings known as "Reploids" (replicant androids). - Mega Man X2
In an ambiguous finale, Burns begins shaving his beard in the bathroom while Nancy secretly inspects clothes that he left on a chair: a leather peaked cap, aviator frames, and a leather jacket that all look very similar to the outfit the killer wore. - Cruising (film)
The ambiguous ending leaves it uncertain whether or not they can be revived. - The Blue Lagoon (novel)
It is left ambiguous as to whether Anderson has overpowered Mitchell and taken over the helicopter, or if Mitchell has killed Anderson, although the relatively downbeat tone to the ending seems to suggest Anderson's death. - Iron Storm (video game)
The story ends on an ambiguous note with Natasha and Ivan reflecting on the events that have unfolded. - Humiliated and Insulted
(The second edition of the novel has an ambiguous ending about Zhang Wuji's relationship with Zhou Zhiruo) Zhang Wuji gave up an opportunity to become a ruler because the Ming Cult eventually overthrew the Yuan dynasty. - The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber
It is left deliberately ambiguous whether Lola shot herself in order to slow down the posse's advance or whether Willie killed her to keep her out of the posse's hands. - Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here
He turns out to be correct, and the professor and his wife are one of the few left alive despite extreme flooding, although the story is ambiguous as to the scale of the disaster. - Inconstant Moon (The Outer Limits)
It is left ambiguous whether the extinction of the Lithians is a result of Ruiz-Sanchez's prayer or Cleaver's error. - A Case of Conscience
Edith falls for the ambiguous smile of Mr Neville, who asks for her hand in marriage. - Hotel du Lac
In each account, the victim seems to have been a mysterious, ambiguous presence, of shifting loyalties and suspicious connections, who set himself against the powers that be. - Shadow (1956 film)
It is left ambiguous as to whether Nancy survives the night. - That Evening Sun
The ending is ambiguous and it is left to the viewer to imagine his fate. - Dead Man's Switch (The Outer Limits)
The film ends on an ambiguous note as Will watches a man hitting golf balls into the ocean. - I'll Sleep When I'm Dead (film)
After the battle Shasta stays with his wolf kindred, and the author is deliberately ambiguous as to whether he later returns to human society. - Shasta of the Wolves
The story has an ambiguous ending, which may suggest that it is the narrator's own actions that will lead to the catastrophe she hopes to prevent, an example of the predestination paradox. - Consider Her Ways
Adina, wife of the ailing Emperor Dheran, gives birth during an eclipse, at exactly the point in time predicted in the Tindaya Code—the ancient, ambiguous and oft-mistranslated prophecy written on the ruins of the temple at the mountain of Tindaya—thus her child is proclaimed to be the saviour of the world: the Guardian. - The Guardian Cycle
The leader of the raid heads into st Albans as a spy, and develops ambiguous feelings about what he is doing when he becomes friends with a young widow and her son. - The Raid (1954 film)
On the recording, it is left ambiguous as to whether the main character commits suicide in the end. - Brave (1994 film)
The four boss characters, along with an imperfect and morally ambiguous clone of Crash Bandicoot named Fake Crash, become accessible as playable characters if the Adventure Mode is fully completed. - Crash Team Racing
After studying the ambiguous number blocks for hours, the discovery is made that these fragments are compatible DNA strands which have been recovered from different worlds all over the galaxy. - The Chase (Star Trek: The Next Generation)
People whose bobbles burst after a certain date in the 23rd century find the Earth completely devoid of human life, with only ambiguous clues as to the cause; possibilities include alien attack and humanity transcending to a new level of existence as a result of a technological singularity. - Marooned in Realtime
The movie ends on an ambiguous note: in one version, Ana and Otto are reunited, while in the other Ana dies in a car accident. - Lovers of the Arctic Circle
Whether Roku-chan is genuinely mentally-challenged, is a point left ambiguous by the film; he has been emphatically diagnosed otherwise in the original novel. - Dodes'ka-den
He ultimately discovers that Mirth is Merlin, the baseball bat is Excalibur, and he is, in some ambiguous way, King Arthur. - Mage (comics)
It is also worth noting that the main character is never named and is usually of ambiguous gender; therefore the reader can easily imagine himself or herself as the main character regardless of what sex he or she is, however, sometimes the occasional "he" slips through. - Give Yourself Goosebumps
Waters calls Captain Rhodes for options; after their short and ambiguous conversation, he concedes to dr Kendricks that they will take those refugees able to walk. - Tears of the Sun
The canvas is white, with a few white lines, and highly valued among Serge's current circle of peers for ambiguous reasons. - Art (play)
In London, Evelina's beauty and ambiguous social status attract unwanted attention and unkind speculation. - Evelina
Meanwhile, Marie grows tired of Woyzeck and turns her attentions to a handsome drum major who, in an ambiguous scene taking place in Marie's bedroom, sleeps with her. - Woyzeck
The family's luck seems to change as if in response to Stanley's fulfillment of his ancestor's promise (a suggestion left purposely ambiguous by the narration). - Holes (novel)
Colette's feelings for Antoine are at first ambiguous and, harbouring some hope that she might grow to return them, he leaves his apartment at the Place Clichy and moves into an apartment across the road from her family's. - Antoine and Colette
It is 1957, Maximilian Theo Aldorfer, a former Nazi SS officer who had posed as a doctor in order to take sensational photographs in concentration camps, and Lucia Atherton, a Holocaust survivor, had an ambiguous sadomasochistic relationship. - The Night Porter
Afterwards, in an ambiguous ending, Séverine sees her husband as healthy again, and they are happy. - Belle de Jour (film)
When Rassilon is first mentioned, the Doctor inquires who he is, seeming ambiguous about his knowledge of the name. - The Deadly Assassin
What actually happens in the car is left ambiguous but is unimportant, since all observers assume that a sexual encounter has occurred. - Appointment in Samarra
It is left ambiguous whether Elwood chooses to follow Gamma and Smith, stay with Wolfina and Emilio, or become a powder hunter in his own right. - Zombiepowder.
Using ambiguous language, Dean convinces Pintero that Reynolds is after the incriminating video Dean blackmailed him with and the encounter turns into a massive gunfight that kills the mobsters, Reynolds, and several of his NSA team. - Enemy of the State (film)
The film's denouement reveals that Ellen had only pretended to be insane by claiming to have seen two murders in the house next door as part of a complex scheme of hers to murder both John and Sarah for their affair (although it is left ambiguous as to whether John and Sarah were really romantically involved or just suspected by Ellen because of paranoia stemming from her first husband's infidelity, or possibly a mix of both). - Night Watch (1973 film)
For individuals heterozygous at both loci, the gametic phase is ambiguous - in these cases, you don't know which haplotype you have,g, TA vs AT. - Haplotype
She walks over to him, and they fall into an ambiguous embrace, as the film ends. - Dogfight (film)
While the ending is left ambiguous in the film, with Nathan gloating over a terrified Cass and Richard in freeze-frame, the comic based on the film gives a vague hint that Nathan's next act was to "blow out their candles". - Creepshow
Jeroen's foster parents are aware of the closeness between the boy and Walt, but it is left ambiguous whether they are aware of the sexual nature of the relationship. - For a Lost Soldier
Margaret employs emotional blackmail to appeal to Dixon's sense of duty and pity to keep him in an ambiguous and sexless relationship. - Lucky Jim
However, the series does not end with the widely expected marriage but on a more ambiguous note. - Who's the Boss?
The film critic claims that these memories are too sentimental and ambiguous to be used in Guido's movie. - 8½
It is about Alex Thomas, a politically radical author of pulp science fiction who has an ambiguous relationship with the sisters. - The Blind Assassin
Sally befriends Maximilian von Heune, a rich playboy baron who takes her and Brian to his country estate; it becomes ambiguous which of the duo Max is seducing. - Cabaret (1972 film)
Klute rushes in, and Cable jumps or is thrown out a window to his death (the film uses ambiguous editing). - Klute
The commercial opens with a dystopic, industrial setting in blue and grayish tones, showing a line of people (of ambiguous gender) marching in unison through a long tunnel monitored by a string of telescreens. - 1984 (advertisement)
The story revolves around Jo Armitage (Bancroft), a woman with an ambiguous number of children from three marriages, who becomes negative and withdrawn after discovering that her third (and current) husband, Jake (Finch), has been unfaithful to her. - The Pumpkin Eater
The act, however, yields ambiguous results. - The Heart of the Matter
As Amy and Charlie lie together, Norman Scutt enters silently and forces Venner at gunpoint to hold Amy down while he rapes her in a sequence far less ambiguous as Amy screams and struggles to break free, to no avail. - Straw Dogs (1971 film)
Fanny and her Radlett cousins have long suspected that the sexually ambiguous Boy, whom they have named the "Lecherous Lecturer," has paedophile tendencies and he is a joke amongst Fanny's cousins for his inappropriate touches and furtive, "lecherous" behaviour towards young girls. - Love in a Cold Climate
Although he is supposed to have contact with Offred only during "the ceremony", a ritual of sexual intercourse intended to result in conception and at which his wife is present, he begins an illegal and ambiguous relationship with her. - The Handmaid's Tale
Chance then talks briefly with Rand's physician, Allenby finally asks what he has been wanting to and has his thoughts confirmed that "Chauncey" is merely a simpleminded gardener who knows nothing of finance or politics, Allenby does not appear bothered by this and it is left ambiguous what he will do about the knowledge. - Being There
The ending is left ambiguous as to what happens to Jimmy on the rock. - Quadrophenia
See Discussion for an overview of the ambiguous use of characterization in The Knights. - The Knights
Through ambiguous flashbacks and disorienting shifts of time and location, the film explores the relationships among the characters. - Last Year at Marienbad
He is persecuted by the wizard Arcalaús, but protected by Urganda la Desconocida (Urganda the Unknown or Unrecognized), an ambiguous priestess with magical powers and a talent for prophecy. - Amadís de Gaula
(Note: In the 1913 draft of the novel, EM Forster had Aziz guilty of the assault and found guilty in the court but changed this in the 1924 draft to create a more ambiguous ending) Ronny Heaslop breaks off their engagement. - A Passage to India
The president is successfully re-elected and a news report about a violent incident in Albania is shown, but it is ambiguous whether this is a true event or simply a continuation of the fictional war. - Wag the Dog
Thus, Rommel's participation remains ambiguous and the perception of it largely has its source in the subsequent events (especially Rommel's forced suicide) and the accounts by surviving participants. - 20 July plot
The decision is left ambiguous (though likely a 'yes') as it is also implied that the melding of the minds may be to the child's benefit and that she may have sinister intentions about it. - Foundation series
The novel has an ambiguous ending, with Bulero heading back toward Earth, and apparent proliferation of Eldritch's cyborg bodily 'stigmata', which may mean that Bulero is still trapped in Eldritch's hallucinatory domain, or that Chew-Z is becoming increasingly popular among Terrans and Martian colonists. - The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
Roget, whom Dax has forced to lead the executions, meekly apologizes to Paris for what he has done, eliciting an ambiguous response. - Paths of Glory
The musical ends on an ambiguous moment of possible reconciliation between teacher and pupil, as Higgins slouches and asks, "Eliza, where the devil are my slippers. - My Fair Lady
The ambiguous ending leaves the events of the characters' lives following the game up to interpretation. - Chrono Cross
Chris accepts that if the allegations are true, as an intellectual exercise, it would be grounds to murder Martin, but he communicates this in a sufficiently ambiguous way that Martin is unaware of the real topic of discussion, and Martin might even think that Chris is saying that he has no problem with Martin's supposed behavior. - Sightseers
Gutierre finds the letter unfinished, with merely one ambiguous line written. - El médico de su honra
At dawn, the trio start packing up their camps, and it remains ambiguous as to whether or not the couple have finally reconciled. - The Loneliest Planet
This series is notable for the complexity of Durham's imagined world, one in which political, economic, mythological and morally ambiguous forces all influence the fates of the ethnically and culturally diverse population. - Acacia: The Sacred Band
The deliberately ambiguous title could refer to the house itself, but also the history of White Australia (see Terra nullius). - Vacant Possession (film)
is a rough, violent, and morally ambiguous police officer who is the head of the homicide department in Ankara. - Behzat Ç. Bir Ankara Polisiyesi
Taking place in the 21st century (the ambiguous year 20XX), Mega Man 7 begins directly after the events of Mega Man 6. - Mega Man 7
Mega Man X4 takes place in an ambiguous year in the 22nd century (21XX), in which after Mega Man X3 humans coexist with intelligent androids called "Reploids". - Mega Man X4
In the final shot, after leaving the hotel and walking away from each other, Natasha calls out to Alba and runs towards her to show off her sprint running skills, leaving their parting ambiguous to if they will ever meet again. - Room in Rome
In the final pages, it is ambiguous as to whether or not a nuclear war between the United States and China has erupted. - Deeper (Long novel)
The film ends with an ambiguous scene during the credits. - Something Borrowed (film)
He also repeats that the facts of this incident cannot be found in any written record but only in the memories of those who actually witnessed it, and acknowledges that although the incidence has ambiguous moral significance, he personally feels that whatever happened, happened for the best. - Eenadu (2009 film)
He draws out the officer's pistol and a single shot is heard, though the film makes it ambiguous who, if anyone, is the victim. - Then I Sentenced Them All to Death
The film is left on an ambiguous note. - Submarine (2010 film)

Example sentences for "ambiguous" in interesting articles

Chidambaram’s tweet added: “food for thought for you know who! :)” Activists campaigning for online freedom of speech say this kind of charge under the IT Act was inevitable, given the ambiguous nature of Section 66-A. - Man faces 3 years in prison for tweeting about finance minister in India
This somewhat ambiguous notation persisted to about 300 B.C. - The oldest "0" in India for which one can assign a definite date
Similarly, when things don’t operate the way they do in the United States or Britain, the repats sometimes complain. Advertisement Continue reading the main story “India can seem to have a fairly ambiguous and chaotic way of working, but it works,” Ms. - Some Indians Find It Tough to Go Home Again
But he was filled with hurt and frustration over the ambiguous cause of his illness. - Decades after a Cold War experiment, a scientist lives with secrets (2012)
Its purpose was to train us to fight in what the Christofascists have been calling the “Culture Wars.” It’s a loose and ambiguous term that basically means anything or anyone that doesn’t align with this very specific view of Christianity must not be allowed to continue. Mission statements of GenJ, TeenPact, NCFCA, CFC How do you do that? Well, you overturn Roe v. - I was trained for the culture wars in home school
On the eve of publication, Bertrand Russel wrote to Frege and pointed out that Frege’s logical system allowed statements that were ambiguous – neither false nor true. - Type Wars
But that’s what it is. MBF on November 29, 2015 at 2:32 pm If I have read correctly past the ambiguous construction of your post, YOU seem to want it both ways: you just speak, and we just shut up. - The Yale Problem Begins in High School
So why did signaling via school did win out over signaling via early jobs? Like early jobs, school can have people practice habits that will be useful in jobs, such as showing up on time, doing what you are told even when that is different from what you did before, figuring out ambiguous instructions, and accepting being frequently and publicly ranked relative to similar people. - School Is to Submit
Its purpose was to train us to fight in what the Christofascists have been calling the “Culture Wars.” It’s a loose and ambiguous term that basically means anything or anyone that doesn’t align with this very specific view of Christianity must not be allowed to continue. Mission statements of GenJ, TeenPact, NCFCA, CFC How do you do that? Well, you overturn Roe v. - I was trained for the culture wars in home school
Perhaps inevitably, the process of discovery — from our confrontation with challenging ambiguous data, through our imaginative responses, to our iterative and error-prone paths of data synthesis and resolution — has turned into a focus of public fascination. - American Schools Are Training Kids for a World That Doesn’t Exist
Perhaps inevitably, the process of discovery — from our confrontation with challenging ambiguous data, through our imaginative responses, to our iterative and error-prone paths of data synthesis and resolution — has turned into a focus of public fascination. - American Schools Are Training Kids for a World That Doesn’t Exist
This is mainly because Somaliland's ambiguous status means it would be difficult to secure vital international funding. - Ethiopia's planned railway network

Meaning of "ambiguous" in English

having more than one possible meaning
Example
- frustrated by ambiguous instructions, the parents were unable to assemble the toy
open to two or more interpretations; or of uncertain nature or significance; or (often) intended to mislead
Examples
- the polling had a complex and equivocal (or ambiguous) message for potential female candidates
- the officer's equivocal behavior increased the victim's uneasiness
- popularity is an equivocal crown
- an equivocal response to an embarrassing question
having no intrinsic or objective meaning; not organized in conventional patterns
Example
- ambiguous inkblots

Meaning of "ambiguous" in Hindi

संदिग्ध ( Sandigdh)
अनेकार्थी ( Anekarthi, anekaarthee)

Synonyms of "ambiguous"

equivocal

Antonyms of "ambiguous"

unequivocal
univocal
unambiguous

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