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US
/ˈdɪðɝ/
]
[ UK /dˈɪðɐ/ ]
[ UK /dˈɪðɐ/ ]
VERB
- act nervously; be undecided; be uncertain
- make a fuss; be agitated
NOUN
-
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