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falteringnoun a state or an instance of temporary inaction because of uncertainty about the right course of actionwhen it's so clear that this is the right thing to do, there's no excuse for faltering fence-sitting, hesitance, hesitancy, hesitation, indecision, irresolution, pause, shilly-shally, shilly-shallying, 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 actionWilliam Lloyd Garrison never once faltered in his demand that slavery be unconditionally abolished balancing, dithering, halting, hanging back, hesitating, scrupling, shilly-shallying, 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 swing unsteadily back and forth or from side to sidethe cut tree seemed to falter for a moment before crashing to the ground rocking, teetering, tottering, wavering, wobbling(also wabbling) floundering, lurching, stumbling, toddlingquaking, quavering, quivering, shaking, shuddering, trembling, vibratingcareening, reeling, staggering, weaving |