Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a vacillating manner; unsteadily; fluctuatingly.
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- adverb In a
vacillating manner;uncertainly ,waveringly .
Etymologies
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vacillating + -ly
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Examples
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Feeling it a pity, however, that any helpful suggestion should be lost at a time when never in the annals of Irish misgovernment has vacillation vacillated so vacillatingly as it does to-day, I have repeated my strong but simple proposals here.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, October 13, 1920 Various 1898
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