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US
/ˈvæsəˌɫeɪt/
]
VERB
-
move or sway in a rising and falling or wavelike pattern
the line on the monitor vacillated -
be undecided about something; waver between conflicting positions or courses of action
He oscillates between accepting the new position and retirement
How To Use vacillate In A Sentence
- When you're under too much emotional stress, you vacillate and procrastinate, especially when it has something to do with money.
- Hurt shook his head, astonished by his own ability to vacillate. MAMBO
- Certainly, public opinion of the royals has vacillated so much over the past couple of decades that anything is possible.
- In the synonymy of slippery speech, to waffle, waver, oscillate, vacillate is ‘to swing back and forth between opinions.’
- Without doubt, the national bourgeoisie tends to vacillate, but we should, nevertheless, make use of its positive side, uniting with it as well as struggling against it.
- Life and crime are games to these characters, and they vacillate between childish gaiety and immoderate violence.
- Its programming vacillates between easily recognized art house fare and mainstream movies, giving the impression that it doesn't really know what it wants to be.
- How often we vacillate back and forth, pro and conning things to death.
- Since the time of his death informed opinion has vacillated between near universal confidence in his guilt and passionate attempts to exonerate him.
- Her parents vacillated between different approaches to discipline.
