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fence-sittingnoun a state or an instance of temporary inaction because of uncertainty about the right course of actionin Congress there was a lot of fence-sitting, with many representatives waiting to see which way the political wind was blowing faltering, 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 in 1904 |