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[ UK /hˈɛsɪtənsi/ ]
[ US /ˈhɛzɪtənsi/ ]
NOUN
  1. a feeling of diffidence and indecision about doing something
  2. a certain degree of unwillingness
    after some hesitation he agreed
    his hesitancy revealed his basic indisposition
    a reluctance to commit himself

How To Use hesitancy In A Sentence

  • Hintock "a solid-going fellow;" he maintained his abeyant mood, not from want of reciprocity, but from a taciturn hesitancy, taught by life as he knew it. The Woodlanders
  • Beyond, crouching by a bush, a rabbit looked across at him in trembling hesitancy. Page 3
  • The hieroglyphic inscription, although carved with hesitancy, is grammatically proper Egyptian.
  • Of course buyer hesitancy, which is understandable, is delaying the work-down in new home levels, as well. BloggingStocks
  • It is my belief that the formula proposed in the message I sent yesterday should be adopted without any hesitancy, that is, a heavily fortified defensive position using an amount of soldiers not to exceed the size of a brigade, which should be maintained at the eastern section of the river. Castro Addresses State Council on Drug Trial
  • For every few videos of someone boldly going into a mailbox on a pogo stick, there's the slapstick guarantee that too much hesitancy will also slam your ass into the pavement, telephone pole or body of water refer to countless hesitant hang-glider clips. Tom Bergeron: America's Funniest Home Videos Meets C-SPAN
  • So the movement associated with Cancer is a strange one; there is a sense of hesitancy, a sidewards approach to things, and an element of moving forwards whilst not looking squarely at what lies ahead.
  • And by and large, they want to have questions asked and they want to have some hesitancy about this initiative.
  • Mascherano was not the only culprit as Liverpool appeared seized by a collective attack of hesitancy.
  • However, we expect a certain hesitancy of line in an early work. In the grandest tradition of Clerks, he wasn't even supposed to be at work that day.
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