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dither

[ US /ˈdɪðɝ/ ]
[ UK /dˈɪðɐ/ ]
VERB
  1. act nervously; be undecided; be uncertain
  2. make a fuss; be agitated
NOUN
  1. an excited state of agitation
    he was in a dither
    there was a terrible flap about the theft

How To Use dither In A Sentence

  • Why all this dither about what's modern and what's not?
  • You've been dithering about this year 's holiday. Times, Sunday Times
  • Thirteen years of dithering is unacceptable. The Sun
  • We are condemned to another wasted year of paralysed dithering. The Sun
  • Veterans are disappointed if not a little angered by the dither and delay which means the collection is now going 100 miles away.
  • He seems rather dithery but in fact he works very calmly and efficiently.
  • Stop dithering and choose which one you want!
  • He excoriates the McSweeney's crowd and "the ridiculous dithering of John Barth ... [and] the reductive cardboard constructions of Donald Barthelme," and would excise from the modern canon "nearly all of Gaddis, Pynchon, DeLillo," and — while he's at it — "the diarrheic flow of words that is Ulysses ... the incomprehensible ramblings of late Faulkner and the sterile inventions of late Nabokov. New & Noteworthy
  • Thanks to Cheney, "dither" has taken on a new connotation for me. Mitchell Bard: We Should Be Grateful That Obama Is "Dithering"
  • It is outrageous that a nation long famous for scientific invention is dithering about investing in the next generation of technologies. Times, Sunday Times
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