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vacillating

/ˈvæsəˌleɪtɪŋ/

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What does vacillating mean?

verb

  1. present participle and gerund of vacillate

adjective

  1. Liable to vacillate.

noun

  1. Vacillation.

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/ˈvæsəˌleɪtɪŋ/

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Her resolve, however, had been taken, and it seemed vacillating even to childishness to abandon it now, unless for graver reasons.
Thomas HardyTess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure WomanProject Gutenberg ebook #110
It was the same harsh voice, the same brow dimmed and wrinkled with tan, the same free, wild, and vacillating glance.
Victor HugoLes MisérablesTranslated by Isabel Florence HapgoodProject Gutenberg ebook #135
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Her casuistic responses which were asked for in two moral situations, verbally presented, Test XXI, were rather vacillating, but evidently sound.
William Healy; Mary Tenney HealyPathology of Lying, Accusation, and Swindling: A Study in Forensic PsychologyProject Gutenberg ebook #449
Others again are so "reckless," so "don't care" disposed, that they treat me as fancy dictates, now friendly, now vacillating, and now inimical.
Henry Ossian FlipperHenry Ossian Flipper, the Colored Cadet at West Point Autobiography of Lieut. Henry Ossian Flipper, U.S.A., First Graduate of Color from the U.S. Military AcademyProject Gutenberg ebook #2448
The stronger personality leads the weaker on by paths which the weaker knows not, upward he leads him, though his steps be slow and vacillating.
Robert Browning; Hiram CorsonAn Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's PoetryProject Gutenberg ebook #260