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most shilly-shally synonyms

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  • abashed
  • aghast
  • alarmed
  • anxious
  • apprehensive
  • aroused
  • blanched
  • cowardly
  • cowed
  • daunted
  • discouraged
  • disheartened
  • dismayed
  • distressed
  • disturbed
  • faint-hearted
  • frightened
  • frozen
  • have cold feet
  • afraid
  • allergic
  • antagonistic
  • antipathetic
  • contrary
  • disinclined
  • disliking
  • having no use for
  • hesitant
  • hostile
  • ill-disposed
  • indisposed
  • inimical
  • loath
  • nasty
  • perverse
  • reluctant
  • uneager
  • unfavorable
  • aback
  • abaft
  • about
  • astern
  • back
  • behind
  • in reverse
  • inverted
  • rearward
  • turned around
  • amble
  • bum around
  • dally
  • diddle-daddle
  • dilly-dally
  • drag
  • fool around
  • fritter away
  • get no place fast
  • goof off
  • hang around
  • hang out
  • idle
  • lag
  • laze
  • lazy
  • loaf
  • loiter
  • loll
  • dilatory
  • procrastinating
  • backward
  • bashful
  • blenching
  • chary
  • constrained
  • coy
  • demure
  • distrustful
  • doubtful
  • dubious
  • flinching
  • humble
  • insecure
  • meek
  • modest
  • mousy
  • rabbity
  • reluctant
  • reserved
  • afraid
  • antipathetic
  • averse
  • backward
  • balking
  • doubtful
  • dubious
  • hesitating
  • indisposed
  • loath
  • not in the mood
  • objecting
  • opposed
  • protesting
  • reluctant
  • resistant
  • shy
  • shying
  • slow
  • ambiguous
  • borderline
  • chancy
  • clouded
  • contingent
  • debatable
  • dicey
  • disreputable
  • doubtable
  • dubious
  • dubitable
  • equivocal
  • far-fetched
  • fat chance
  • fishy
  • hazardous
  • hazy
  • iffy
  • impugnable
  • doubtful
  • dubious
  • skeptical
  • suspicious
  • be undecided
  • bobble
  • break
  • drop the ball
  • flounder
  • fluctuate
  • fluff
  • halt
  • hem and haw
  • hesitate
  • lurch
  • quaver
  • reel
  • rock
  • roll
  • scruple
  • shake
  • speak haltingly
  • stagger
  • apathetic
  • cool
  • impassive
  • indifferent
  • irresolute
  • lackluster
  • listless
  • lukewarm
  • neutral
  • passive
  • perfunctory
  • spiritless
  • tame
  • tepid
  • unenthusiastic
  • uninterested
  • awkward
  • bumbling
  • claudicant
  • clumsy
  • doubtful
  • faltering
  • gauche
  • imperfect
  • indecisive
  • inept
  • irresolute
  • labored
  • limping
  • lumbering
  • maladroit
  • slow
  • stammering
  • stumbling
  • stuttering
  • irresolute
  • skeptical
  • uncertain
  • unsure
  • astraddle
  • changeable
  • doubtful
  • faltering
  • halting
  • hemming and hawing
  • hesitant
  • hesitating
  • hot and cold
  • inconclusive
  • indeterminate
  • irresolute
  • of two minds
  • on the fence
  • tentative
  • unclear
  • undecided
  • undetermined
  • uneventful
  • changing
  • doubtful
  • doubting
  • faltering
  • fearful
  • fickle
  • fluctuating
  • halfhearted
  • halting
  • hesitant
  • hesitating
  • hot-and-cold
  • infirm
  • on-the-fence
  • shaky
  • tentative
  • timid
  • uncertain
  • undecided
  • afraid
  • averse
  • backward
  • dawdling
  • delaying
  • diffident
  • disinclined
  • doubtful
  • doubting
  • faltering
  • half-hearted
  • halting
  • hanging back
  • hesitating
  • indecisive
  • irresolute
  • lazy
  • loath
  • reluctant
  • afraid
  • counter
  • disinclined
  • hesitant
  • indisposed
  • opposed
  • reluctant
  • remiss
  • resisting
  • uneager
  • unwilling
  • dangling
  • dependent
  • drooping
  • pendant
  • pendent
  • pending
  • pendulant
  • pensile
  • suspended
  • swinging
  • unsettled
  • afraid
  • averse
  • backward
  • calculating
  • cautious
  • chary
  • circumspect
  • demurring
  • diffident
  • discouraged
  • disheartened
  • disinclined
  • grudging
  • hanging back
  • hesitant
  • hesitating
  • indisposed
  • involuntary
  • laggard
  • be irresolute
  • blow hot and cold
  • dally
  • dawdle
  • dodge
  • fluctuate
  • halt
  • hesitate
  • stall
  • trifle
  • vacillate
  • waver
  • afraid
  • apprehensive
  • averse
  • backward
  • bashful
  • cautious
  • chary
  • circumspect
  • conscious
  • coy
  • demure
  • diffident
  • disinclined
  • distrustful
  • fearful
  • hesitant
  • humble
  • indisposed
  • introvert
  • agnostic
  • aporetic
  • cynical
  • dissenting
  • doubtful
  • doubting
  • dubious
  • freethinking
  • hesitating
  • incredulous
  • mistrustful
  • questioning
  • quizzical
  • scoffing
  • show-me
  • suspicious
  • unbelieving
  • unconvinced
  • apathetic
  • crawling
  • creeping
  • dawdling
  • delaying
  • deliberate
  • dilatory
  • disinclined
  • dreamy
  • drowsy
  • easy
  • gradual
  • heavy
  • idle
  • imperceptible
  • inactive
  • indolent
  • inert
  • lackadaisical
  • acting
  • ad interim
  • conjectural
  • contingent
  • dependent
  • iffy
  • indefinite
  • makeshift
  • not final
  • not settled
  • on trial
  • open for consideration
  • probationary
  • provisional
  • provisionary
  • provisory
  • speculative
  • subject to change
  • temporary
  • Milquetoast
  • afraid
  • ambivalent
  • apprehensive
  • badgered
  • bashful
  • browbeaten
  • bullied
  • capricious
  • cowardly
  • cowed
  • cowering
  • coy
  • daunted
  • demure
  • diffident
  • fainthearted
  • fearful
  • feeble
  • averse
  • backward
  • disinclined
  • hesitant
  • indisposed
  • loath
  • reluctant
  • sorry
  • unhappy
  • unwilling
  • capricious
  • chance
  • chancy
  • dicey
  • doubtful
  • erratic
  • fickle
  • fluctuating
  • fluky
  • from left field
  • hanging by a thread
  • iffy
  • incalculable
  • inconstant
  • random
  • touch and go
  • touchy
  • uncertain
  • unforeseeable
  • betwixt and between
  • borderline
  • distrustful
  • dubious
  • fluctuant
  • fly-by-night
  • hesitant
  • iffy
  • in a quandary
  • indecisive
  • indeterminate
  • irresolute
  • lacking
  • mistrustful
  • open
  • problematic
  • rootless
  • shaky
  • skeptical
  • afraid
  • against
  • against the grain
  • averse
  • backward
  • begrudging
  • compelled
  • contrary
  • demurring
  • disinclined
  • disobliging
  • evasive
  • forced
  • grudging
  • hesitating
  • indisposed
  • indocile
  • involuntary
  • laggard
  • changeable
  • fluctuating
  • hesitant
  • hesitating
  • inconstant
  • irresolute
  • oscillating
  • shifting
  • swaying
  • tentative
  • uncertain
  • undecided
  • unsure
  • vibrating
  • volatile
  • wavering
  • afraid
  • averse
  • backward
  • dawdling
  • delaying
  • diffident
  • disinclined
  • doubtful
  • doubting
  • faltering
  • half-hearted
  • halting
  • hanging back
  • hesitating
  • indecisive
  • irresolute
  • lacking confidence
  • lazy
  • loath
  • fickle
  • fluctuating
  • hesitating
  • irresoluteoscillating
  • undecided
  • unstable
  • unsteady
  • unsure
  • vacillating
  • variable
  • waffling

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