hesitant
The president is not known for his hesitancy in such matters.
It was important we didn't show hesitancy or fear.
He suggests that some people's hesitance to invest can make them better at handling money.
Sensing my hesitancy, he held out his hand and shook mine firmly.
There was a note of hesitancy in her voice.
There's been a little hesitance because they like to err on the side of caution.
The president overruled the hesitancies and objections of his subordinates.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Hesitating
backward
broken English
dilly-dally
dither
ditherer
gun-shy
halting
haltingly
hang
hang back
have a foot in both campsidiom
hem and hawidiom
hesitant
hesitantly
hesitate
hesitatingly
hum
pussyfoot
shilly-shally
sit on the fenceidiom

Examples of hesitancy

hesitancy
The tone is confident, and lacks any hint of hesitancy or uncertainty which might suggest pathos.
This impression of royal hesitancy is confirmed by other sources.
Any hesitancy they may have shown in the face of rioters was due therefore to the limited coercive resources at their disposal.
Ratings of hesitancy with peers were associated with higher avoidance subscale scores but not higher resistance subscale scores.
We cannot help but wonder to what extent their comprehension suffers because of a hesitancy to use language.
Such hesitancy and delay made it even less likely that the eventual campaign to eradicate the species in the 1960s would succeed.
This hesitancy in axon regrowth strongly indicates that novel barriers at this interface have not been identified.
Some of the hesitancy of retailers towards entering politics at the national level was also breaking down.
Since farmers have historically faced 'use it or lose it' water rights, there has been some hesitancy in market participation.
It is understandable that there would be some hesitancy to prescribe such medication to younger patients.
On the issue of the coming nuclear power plant, he reversed the previous governmental hesitancy and re-opened its budget, suspended since 1985.
To the extent that evidence accumulates for a relationship between delay in initiation of treatment and outcome, such hesitancy may have to be reassessed.
This creates a feeling of hesitancy, of stasis and incompleteness, which represents the singer alone, without love.
Rather, our hesitancy stresses that we really do not know very much about animal self-awareness, nor about its taxonomic distribution.
Surely the in_uence of cultural studies is one of the reasons for this epistemological hesitancy.
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