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Verb
Present participle for to deliberately act evasively in order to gain time or postpone a decision
Present participle for to hesitate in indecision before doing something
Present participle for to speak ambiguously, unclearly or doubtfully, especially with intent to deceive
Present participle for to move or act at a slow speed
Present participle for to intervene in a dispute in order to bring about an agreement or reconciliation
Present participle for to put off until a later time
Adjective
Intended to cause delay or waste time
Self-seeking
Noun
The inability to decide on a course of action, especially if two or more possibilities exist
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Verb
▲
Present participle for to deliberately act evasively in order to gain time or postpone a decision
stalling
delaying
procrastinating
hedging
prevaricating
tergiversating
tarrying
deferring
paltering
hanging back
putting off
playing for time
beating about the bush
using delaying tactics
gaining time
taking your time
playing a waiting game
stalling for time
avoiding committing oneself
avoiding making a decision
using Fabian tactics
kicking the can down the road
holding back
hanging fire
hesitating
dithering
equivocating
stonewalling
filibustering
dallying
using dilatory tactics
putting on the back burner
postponing
diverting
distracting
buying time
dragging your feet
beating around the bush
taking one's time
holding over
avoiding the issue
temporising
UK
penelopizing
more ❯
“Moderate leaders continue to
temporize
and avoid coming to grips with extremists.”
Verb
▲
Present participle for to hesitate in indecision before doing something
hesitating
wavering
vacillating
dithering
scrupling
dawdling
equivocating
baulking
UK
balking
US
doubting
dilly-dallying
hesitating over
humming and hawing
thinking twice
holding back
hemming and hawing
sitting on fence
fluctuating
faltering
havering
swithering
shilly-shallying
teetering
stalling
blowing hot and cold
delaying
dallying
staggering
halting
wabbling
hanging back
pussyfooting around
sitting on the fence
oscillating
wobbling
alternating
procrastinating
lingering
hedging
seesawing
hovering
dillydallying
balancing
boggling
flip-flopping
chopping and changing
running hot and cold
wasting time
fence-straddling
keeping changing your mind
faffing about
trifling
changing
pottering
swinging
tarrying
loitering
waffling
straddling
whiffling
marking time
killing time
yo-yoing
whiling away time
changing mind
dragging your heels
moving slowly
playing a waiting game
pausing
waiting
tergiversating
demurring
pussyfooting
stumbling
deferring
deliberating
stopping
floundering
mammering
pondering
weighing
hanging
debating
shying away
holding off
pulling back
thinking about
temporising
UK
prevaricating
swaying
getting cold feet
wobbling about
varying
paltering
dodging
see-sawing
messing around
hanging about
hanging around
umming and ahing
straggling
lagging
whiffling waffling
hanging fire
staying in the background
staying back
shrinking back
dragging your feet
having doubts
wondering about
feeling uncertain
lacking conviction
harbouring reservations about
expressing suspicions about
having doubts about
feeling uneasy about
having reservations about
harbouring suspicions about
having suspicions about
having hesitations about
thinking something unlikely
entertaining doubts about
fluctuating on
expressing reservations about
more ❯
“They might
temporize
with their own consciences, but not with public opinion.”
Verb
▲
Present participle for to speak ambiguously, unclearly or doubtfully, especially with intent to deceive
equivocating
tergiversating
prevaricating
waffling
pussyfooting
fudging
dodging
hedging
flanneling
flannelling
fencing
weaseling
US
weaselling
UK
sidestepping
evading
quibbling
stalling
parrying
stonewalling
shuffling
cavilling
UK
caviling
US
paltering
conning
jiving
adumbrating
fibbing
lying
pettifogging
subtilizing
shilly-shallying
dodging the issue
parrying questions
beating about the bush
evading the issue
humming and hawing
fudging the issue
hemming and hawing
sitting on the fence
ducking the question
shuffling about
copping out
ducking the issue
pussyfooting around
beating around the bush
avoiding the issue
mincing words
begging the question
blowing hot and cold
stalling for time
covering up
running around
straddling the fence
copping a plea
passing the buck
clouding the issue
giving run around
telling white lie
mincing matters
vacillating
sidestepping the issue
ducking
avoiding
hesitating
shucking
wavering
flip-flopping
hedging your bets
giving the run around
shuffling around
straddling an issue
dodging the question
playing your cards close to your chest
giving nothing away
temporising
UK
shirking
circumventing
balking
US
giving the runaround
baulking
UK
dancing around an issue
worming one's way out of
rambling
shifting
skirting
falsifying
misrepresenting
blathering
skirting the issue
shifting ground about
playing it close to the vest
fast-talking
bypassing
copping out of
beating about the bush about
getting out of
beating around bush
quibbling about
fending off
finding a way round
skirting round
avoiding answering
eluding
fudging and mudging
tapdancing
dancing around
euphemizing
eschewing
welshing
reneging
fleeing
getting around
sneaking away
slipping out
putting off
laying low
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to move or act at a slow speed
tarrying
dallying
dawdling
delaying
lagging
dillydallying
diddling
crawling
poking
creeping
dragging
procrastinating
moping
hesitating
lollygagging
lallygagging
stalling
pausing
filibustering
biding
shilly-shallying
taking one's time
dragging your feet
putting off
taking your time
hanging around
hanging about
staying put
hanging round
goofing around
losing time
warming a chair
getting no place fast
lingering
loitering
vacillating
dithering
waiting
dilly-dallying
using delaying tactics
hanging fire
playing for time
humming and hawing
putting off doing something
playing a waiting game
whiling away time
idling
straggling
stonewalling
staggering
plodding
tottering
marking time
waiting around
buying time
holding back
wasting time
killing time
goofing off
lagging behind
falling behind
pottering round
pottering about
hanging on
pottering around
horsing around
deferring
retarding
protracting
prolonging
wavering
adjourning
havering
postponing
goldbricking
cooling
swithering
staying
deferring action
letting something slide
taking a raincheck
dragging your heels
kicking the can down the road
holding off
suspending action
postponing action
temporising
UK
lolling
trifling
slouching
puttering
faltering
fooling around
sitting around
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to intervene in a dispute in order to bring about an agreement or reconciliation
mediating
arbitrating
intervening
interceding
interposing
conciliating
intermediating
moderating
facilitating
liaising
brokering
refereeing
umpiring
dealing
interfering
acting as peacemaker
stepping in
acting as middleman
bringing to terms
acting as an intermediary
arbitrating in
bringing to an agreement
Verb
▲
Present participle for to put off until a later time
delaying
deferring
postponing
shelving
suspending
rescheduling
stalling
adjourning
prolonging
staying
protracting
tabling
continuing
extending
mothballing
pigeonholing
remitting
respiting
retarding
putting off
holding off
holding over
setting aside
holding off on
holding up
putting back
putting on hold
putting on ice
putting on the back burner
putting over
giving rain check
holding in abeyance
taking a raincheck
taking a rain check on
laying on the table
putting on back burner
giving a rain check
keeping in abeyance
putting in cold storage
Adjective
▲
Intended to cause delay or waste time
dilatory
delaying
stalling
dallying
deferring
dilly-dallying
postponing
procrastinating
shelving
tabling
time-wasting
dawdling
Fabian
lingering
loitering
tarrying
cunctative
moratory
putting off
hindering
obstructive
halting
retardant
temporising
UK
sluggish
laggard
slothful
creeping
lagging
crawling
leisurely
tardy
snaillike
slow
ponderous
idle
indolent
plodding
leaden
measured
phlegmatic
listless
lethargic
slow-going
lackadaisical
deliberate
slack
easy
torpid
moderate
tortoiselike
supine
drowsy
dreamy
passive
apathetic
inert
slow-moving
slow-paced
stagnant
sleepy
heavy
inactive
gradual
slow-footed
unhurried
languid
dragging
dillydallying
pokey
poking
lazy
poky
sluggardly
lollygagging
behindhand
snail-paced
tortoise-like
snail-like
late
cautious
gentle
relaxed
steady
sedate
attritional
circumspect
comfortable
undemanding
unrushed
labored
US
laboured
UK
leaden-footed
laggy
imperceptible
remiss
hesitant
lax
unhasty
unpunctual
flagging
more ❯
Adjective
▲
Self-seeking
timeserving
opportunist
hypocritical
self-seeking
temporising
UK
trimming
Noun
▲
The inability to decide on a course of action, especially if two or more possibilities exist
indecision
wavering
hesitancy
hesitation
vacillation
irresolution
doubt
faltering
uncertainty
indecisiveness
hesitance
pause
equivocation
delay
dithering
dubiety
fluctuation
irresoluteness
unsureness
oscillation
stalling
wabbling
wobbling
doubtfulness
tentativeness
ambivalence
waiting
temporization
incertitude
cunctation
havering
swithering
teetering
shilly-shallying
shilly-shally
fence-sitting
dilly-dallying
hanging back
humming and hawing
second thoughts
lack of resolution
blowing hot and cold
sitting on the fence
procrastination
pausing
dawdling
delaying
postponement
deferment
kicking the can down the road
delaying tactics
adjournment
scepticism
UK
timidity
skepticism
US
demurral
slowness
dilatoriness
slackness
hemming and hawing
putting off
dubiousness
nervousness
caution
diffidence
misgiving
faint-heartedness
fumbling
stuttering
mistrust
stammering
reluctance
unwillingness
averseness
half-heartedness
qualm
shillyshallying
stumbling
indisposition
scruple
changeableness
to-and-fro
timidness
weakness
lingering
loitering
dallying
tarrying
reprieve
lagging behind
respite
breather
recess
dragging your feet
rest
prevarication
shuffling
quibbling
hedging
qualification
cavilling
UK
ambiguity
quibble
parrying
fencing
fudging
evasion
pussyfooting
tergiversation
shuffle
dodging
equivocality
caviling
US
stalling for time
temporising
UK
confusion
reservation
vagueness
apprehension
insecurity
suspicion
distrustfulness
dubitation
mistrustfulness
distrust
uneasiness
reservations
wariness
inconclusiveness
unease
chariness
lack of certainty
lack of confidence
questioning
lack of conviction
disbelief
cynicism
incredulity
misgivings
bewilderment
misbelief
unbelief
quandary
inconstancy
queries
questions
reserve
indefiniteness
perplexity
indeterminacy
unclearness
umbrage
fear
conjecture
changeability
limbo
qualms
misdoubt
query
difficulty
inhibition
disquietude
leeriness
suspicions
trepidation
disquiet
faithlessness
question mark
lack of trust
lack of faith
trust issues
woolliness
ineffectuality
infirmity
condition
swither
unsteadiness
feeble-mindedness
reconsideration
untrustworthiness
tension
disinclination
silence
resistance
anxiety
demur
awkward moment
lack of enthusiasm
apprehensiveness
strain
edginess
suspense
wonder
puzzle
questionableness
contradiction
conflict
muddle
opposition
dilemma
clash
haze
iffiness
haziness
gingerliness
incongruity
equivocacy
inconsistency
confusion dilemma
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