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shilly-shallyingnoun a state or an instance of temporary inaction because of uncertainty about the right course of actionfortunately, during the crisis there was no shilly-shallying on the part of the president faltering, fence-sitting, hesitance, hesitancy, hesitation, indecision, irresolution, pause, shilly-shally, vacillation, wavering, wobbling(also wabbling) delay, hawing, procrastination, waitingarrière-pensée, misgiving, second thoughtconsideration, debate, deliberation, doubt, incertitude, indecisiveness, indetermination, uncertainness, uncertaintyavoidance, equivocationaversion, disinclination, indisposition, reluctance, unwillingnessfaintheartedness, shyness, timidity, timidness certainty, certitude, confidence, decisiveness, determination, firmness, resoluteness, resolution, surenessalacrity, eagerness, readiness to show uncertainty about the right course of actionI didn't shilly-shally but instead raced to the hospital as soon as I heard the news balancing, dithering, faltering, halting, hanging back, hesitating, scrupling, staggering, teetering, vacillating, wavering, wobbling(also wabbling) hawing, hemmingdallying, dawdling, delaying, lingering, pausing, procrastinating, waitingbacking down, chickening (out)considering, debating, deliberating, pondering, weighingoscillating, swayingequivocating, hedging, pussyfooting, waffling diving (in), plunging (in) decidingbudging, stirringadvancing, continuing to move or act slowlywith dinner guests due in two hours, there was no time to shilly-shally in front of the TV set crawling, creeping, dallying, dawdling, delaying, diddling, dillydallying, dragging, lagging, lingering, loitering, lollygagging(also lallygagging), moping, poking, tarrying fiddling (around), fooling around, messing around, monkeying (around), playing, pottering (around), puttering (around), triflinghanging (around or out), idling, loafing, lolling, loungingambling, easing, inching, lumbering, plodding, sauntering, shuffling, staggering, strollingdecelerating, slowing (down or up)filibustering, procrastinating, stalling, temporizing dragging one's feet(also dragging one's heels), dropping behind, falling behind, hanging fire, marking time, taking one's time barreling(or barrelling), bolting, careering, coursing, dashing, flying, hastening, hotfooting (it), hurrying, racing, ripping, rocketing, running, rushing, scooting, scudding, scurrying, speeding, tearing, whirling, whisking, whizzing, zipping bowling, breezing, darting, humping, hurtling, hustling, scrambling, stampedinggalloping, jogging, running, sprinting, trottingaccelerating, quickening, speeding (up)catching up, fast-forwarding, outpacing, outrunning, outstripping, overtaking |