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Synonyms:
- mutable, capricious, staggering, deviating, beating, shy, sporadic, unsteady, unsettled, tottering, infirm, disbelieving, erratic, transposable, transfiguring, diversifying, seesawing, modifying, fitful, reforming, varying, rocking, whimsical, transformable, oscillating, zigzag, back-and-forth, teeter-totter, uncertain, restless, flighty, versatile, lingering, bobbing, transforming, mutating, movable, suspecting, dallying, vicissitudinous, hesitating, throbbing, transiting, indecisive, flitting, altering, unstable, reformable, random, unsure, impulsive, protean, distrusting, fleeting, wondering, volatile, wagging, insipid, convertible, wayward, ambivalent, teeter-tottering, vacillant, inconstant, tentative, mercurial, adaptable, dilly-dallying, converting, watery, flexible, doubting, unreliable, irresponsible, shrinking, fly-by-night, alterable, unwilling, modifiable, changeful, frivolous, variable, adjustable, changeable, questioning, filibustering, undependable, fanciful, fluid, radiating, yellow, dillydallying, procrastinating, ever-changing, double-minded, undulating, halfhearted, shifting, scatterbrained, fickle, vibrating, stalling, irresolute, inconsistent, adapting, pulsating, transposing, modulating, swaying, setting, adjusting, shifty, changing, arbitrary, wavering, precarious, spineless, undecided, shilly-shally, trembling, unresolved, wobbling, pulsing, ticking, dawdling, hesitant, fluctuating, alternating, weak
Examples:
- - The Judge, wisely conceiving it better to join the stronger party, ran feebly after him, and left Union Mills to bring up a weak and vacillating rear. - "On the Frontier", Bret Harte
- - The resources for defence were relatively insignificant, and indecision and weakness were shown by Sir George Prevost, then commander- in- chief and governor- general- a well meaning man but wanting in ability as a military leader, who was also hampered by the vacillating counsels of the Liverpool administration, which did not believe in war until the province was actually invaded. - "Canada under British Rule 1760-1900", John G. Bourinot
- - She had preached a crusade; he lived to assemble the armies of Christendom against the Turks, and died at Ancona, while it was still uncertain whether the authority and enthusiasm of a pope could steady the wavering counsels and vacillating wills of kings and princes. - "Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Vol III.", John Symonds
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