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- noun One who
vacillates .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun one who hesitates (usually out of fear)
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Examples
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In his post, my fellow vacillator makes some damning admissions.
Amary Wiggin: Why I Don't Offer To Pay Unless... Amary Wiggin 2011
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This White House makes a serial vacillator like Bill Clinton look like Patton crossing the Rhine.
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In his post, my fellow vacillator makes some damning admissions.
Amary Wiggin: Why I Don't Offer To Pay Unless... Amary Wiggin 2011
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Ah yes — “makes serial vacillator Bill Clinton look like Patton crossing the Rhine”
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Pat Quinn as a waffler, a vacillator, a ... var news_amount = 10;
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If you were a gang leader with a gang of 5 sensible sheep and 5 wily wolves, with 2 of the latter tending to agree with you, 2 tending to disagree, and 1 vacillating, then any manipulative preaching must be directed towards the sheep – not the vacillator.
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So Raedwald is usually seen as a vacillator under his wife's thumb, a weathervane who tried to have his cake and eat it.
Five historical figures Carla 2006
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So Raedwald is usually seen as a vacillator under his wife's thumb, a weathervane who tried to have his cake and eat it.
Archive 2006-06-01 Carla 2006
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Anything to arouse this personator of our human mutability, this vacillator between doing and letting alone!
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 72, October, 1863 Various
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And, all along, he had been regarding himself as the weakling, the vacillator, when it was he who had held out the longest!
Phantom Wires A Novel Arthur Stringer 1912
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