mixed blessing
He used white paint raw from the tube, unmixed with any other colour.
His hair was still jet black, unmixed with grey.
One box contains an assortment of coloured chalk, and there are unmixed white pieces in the other.
Few people now look on progress as an unmixed blessing.
You would imagine such conservative parents would react with unmixed horror to a radical son.
The result was not an unmixed success.
She felt simple sexual attraction unmixed with love.
I don't think his motivations were unmixed.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Separating and dividing
apheresis
atomize
bifurcate
bifurcation
bisect
dismemberment
dissociable
dissociate
dissociate yourself from something
dissociation
non-dialyzable
parcel something out
partible
periodization
periodize
unforked
ungraded
unjoined
unmix
unmixable

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Complete and whole

Examples of unmixed

unmixed
Samples of the unmixed varieties were taken as follows.
In addition, the meaning of both words was not unmixed with the shadow of the alarming, the abnormal, the bizarre.
First, there is no known physical reason why certain colors should be perceived as unmixed or special.
But this may be a not unmixed blessing.
The unmixed-fluid contribution is positive everywhere, except a t the extreme edges of the inner wake where it rejoins the slightly negative conventional-average value.
Instead, the gravitational forces effectively cause small vertical velocities throughout widespread regions of unmixed fluid covering the entire vertical extent of the reservoir.
Considerable structural changes occur in the unmixed fluid in the region near the mean edges of the mixed fluid region.
Here it would be helpful to have information on the children's word order in unmixed utterances in both languages.
No one ever said they were an unmixed blessing.
The data in figure 7 also show that the amount of unmixed ambient fluid found within the jet decreases as the centreline is approached.
Indeed, such unmixed ambient fluid can be found throughout the far field of the jet, including the centreline of the flow.
I will return to them later, after discussing the factors that condition the variation between the two major, unmixed categories.
Finally, a novel experiment involving two unmixed species in the nozzle fluid is proposed and analysed.
The shape of the correlation profile largely reflects the radial variation of the unmixed-fluid probability.
They stand for physically unmixed lights, and, at the same time, they are the colors out of which the other colors are combined.
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