ADJECTIVE
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uncertain how to act or proceed
the committee was timid and mediocre and irresolute
How To Use irresolute In A Sentence
- But as he stood, irresolute, in the hall, the office door opened and the second detective came out. A DEATH IN TIME
- But as he stood, irresolute, in the hall, the office door opened and the second detective came out. A DEATH IN TIME
- Branding is a sign, not of the dynamic accumulation of capital, but of weakness and irresolute leadership.
- Negative beliefs are a source of shortsightedness, irresponsibility, irresoluteness and timidity. If you do not believe that you can create and control your future, you are unlikely to win in life. Dr T.P.Chia
- The turnkey conducted him — trembling from head to foot, and constantly crying under his breath, What was he to do! while his irresolute fingers bedabbled the tears upon his face — up one of the common staircases in the prison to a door on the garret story. Little Dorrit
- While he was in this irresolute mind there came to the court certain players, in whom Hamlet formerly used to take delight, and particularly to hear one of them speak a tragical speech, describing the death of old Priam, King of Troy, with the grief of Hecuba his queen. Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
- His partner Doyle, an Anglicised Irishman, laments his fellow-countrymen's irresolute dreaming and victim culture.
- Elizabeth, long cast in a golden glow by historians, appears ‘vain, irresolute, avaricious and penny-pinching,’ and driven by sexual jealousy.
- If America projects an image of irresoluteness in the world, does that not make us more vulnerable to future attacks? From the WSJ Opinion Archives
- Affirmative and ambiguous, we are invited to critically examine our own fear of and fascination with the mysterious and irresolute.