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  • adjective Inclined to fluctuate; wavering.

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  • verb Present participle of vacillate.
  • adjective Liable to vacillate; wavering, irresolute.

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  • adjective uncertain in purpose or action

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Examples

  • Again, he is often loose and vacillating in the use of the English words he has selected as corresponding to the technical phraseology of the Arabian jurists, and sometimes infelicitous in the selection of his English terms.

    International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 9, August 26, 1850 Various

  • My friend, who may mildly be described as vacillating in temperament, left me in Calcutta.

    Autobiography of a Yogi Yogananda, Paramhansa, 1893-1952 1935

  • My friend, who may mildly be described as vacillating in temperament, left me in Calcutta.

    Autobiography of a Yogi Paramahansa Yogananda 1922

  • I think that there's a lot of us out there who are kind of vacillating in terms of 60-40 a lot in my own mind.

    CNN Transcript Feb 1, 2008 2008

  • I think there's a lot of us out there who are kind of vacillating between 60/40 a lot and in my own mind, I really need to see them both.

    CNN Transcript Feb 1, 2008 2008

  • Why should there be no tribunal of control over these "vacillating" husbands, who refuse to abide by written pledges, and make promises "for the opportunity of breaking them"?

    A Letter to the Queen on Lord Chancellor Cransworth's Marriage and Divorce Bill 1855

  • But that is not as he would have the world believe, his only "vacillating" attempt at reconciliation.

    English Laws for Women in the Nineteenth Century 1854

  • Broder's "vacillating" Democrats want the religous Islamic victory mosque, because now the flip-flopping Democrats are religous conscience, and Republicans just say No. What an outrage that our government has put roadblocks in the path of its own citizens trying rebuild their beloved Church destroyed by Islamic extremists, St. Nicholas Greek

    LJWorld.com stories: News 2010

  • Korban Oleh Viyored, a "vacillating" Sin Offering, brought by an individual guilty of certain specific sins.

    Chabad.org Weekly Magazine [ Chukat-Balak 5769 - July 3, 2009 ] 2009

  • Red Herring report in March, Meffert noted some larger firms had started "vacillating" in their interest.

    Wi-Fi Networking News 2009

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