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US
/ˈhɛzəˌteɪtɪŋ/
]
[ UK /hˈɛsɪtˌeɪtɪŋ/ ]
[ UK /hˈɛsɪtˌeɪtɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
- lacking decisiveness of character; unable to act or decide quickly or firmly
How To Use hesitating In A Sentence
- I would unhesitatingly choose the latter option.
- Had she driven poor Tina away by hesitating about paying for the installation of a bathroom?
- Strangely, having run his fastest to get to her, Hyacinth seemed almost reluctant to knock at the door, or enter without knocking, and while he was hesitating on the doorstone her singing ceased, and she came out to see whose fleet footsteps had stirred the small stones of the pathway. The Hermit of Eyton Forest
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- During the evening meal at his family dwelling, Jonas hesitatingly asks his parents if they love him.
- ` ` This year it's been a little more difficult in nitpicking little things, and I think sometimes we get guys hesitating. USATODAY.com
- If he may be capitalized (and surely he was rich enough to be), he might be described as hesitating whether to be a Plutocrat or a Good Citizen; perhaps he was hoping to be both. Under the Skylights
- He stood hesitating over whether to join the fight.
- It gives us a measure of the indulgent sympathy and religious tolerance which prevailed in this Evangelical home, that the parents should have unhesitatingly supplied the boy of fourteen, at some cost of time and trouble, with all the accessible writings of the "atheistical" poet, and with those of his presumably like-minded friend Keats as well. Robert Browning
- Gaisberg summed it up in his memoirs: ‘Caruso was the decoy that brought other hesitating celebrities to our recording studios.’