incertitude

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NOUN
  1. the state of being unsure of something
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How To Use incertitude In A Sentence

  • And romantic it certainly was — the fog, like the grey shadow of infinite mystery, brooding over the whirling speck of earth; and men, mere motes of light and sparkle, cursed with an insane relish for work, riding their steeds of wood and steel through the heart of the mystery, groping their way blindly through the Unseen, and clamouring and clanging in confident speech the while their hearts are heavy with incertitude and fear. Chapter 1
  • Women directors admit vulnerabilities, but sometimes their openness to suggestion is mistaken for incertitude.
  • Even Paulson says that this enormous bail out may not cure the problem, so we will be left in the same position of incertitude and fear we are today, but we would have spent nearly a trillion dollars. Congress to the rescue! (Maybe)
  • Since every decision that is made comes with a bit of incertitude, statistics guides one in making proper preferences.
  • Curiously it could be said to be making a come back in post-modernist painters such as Tuysman & Richter, where it 'hovers' in anxiety & incertitude rather than the inevitability of the 'penny dropping'. Stillness and Action, Part 2
  • While Pinter the playwright may extol existential ambiguity and incertitude, Pinter the activist and dissenter has no such anxiety.
  • Then I did meekly remind her of her flirtatious preferences for the young beef-witted London chaps, and her incertitude and disdainful capriciousness towards myself, who was not a beetlehead or an obtuse, but a cultivated native gentleman with high-class university degree, and an oratorical flow of language which was infallibly to land me upon the pinnacle of some tip-top judicial preferment in the Calcutta High Court of Justice. Baboo Jabberjee, B.A.
  • This is when the teller asked if the suspect was "serious," expressing her crime-fighting incertitude. Bank Teller averts robbery, asking "Are you serious?"
  • Même s'il confirme que le personnel de la base restera en place, le général Hillier affirme qu'il est lui aussi dans l'incertitude quant à son avenir. Hillier on Goose Bay: uncertain
  • The struggle and incertitude do not put out the light in those who are driven by their own passion for the arts.
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