irresolute
Gabriel held her hand for a moment longer, irresolutely.
Edward walked irresolutely around the room.
She came home to nurse her father and stayed on irresolutely after his death.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Doubt & ambivalence
ambivalence
ambivalent
ambivalently
askance
be in two mindsidiom
fence-sitting
have a foot in both campsidiom
haw
hem
hem and hawidiom
nonconcern
nonplussed
quandary
rudderless
shades of greyidiom
warily
wary
waver
wavering
waveringly

Examples of irresolutely

irresolutely
He lighted a cigarette; she looked at him irresolutely.
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This done, he paused irresolutely on the threshold, and with good cause.
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Irresolutely the mighty finger of light wanders across the plain as if it were searching for something and could not find it.
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With a vague feeling of uneasiness, he turned it over in his hand irresolutely for a moment, then opened it.
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He sank down irresolutely on the rug again.
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She walks back and forth from the window irresolutely.
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When nearly at their cottage, he turned about irresolutely and met them.
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She stood a moment more, looking irresolutely at the sleeping children.
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He turned irresolutely now, and looked at the floor.
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I turned toward the door, but paused irresolutely.
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She looked at me a while, irresolutely and with a sorrowful expression.
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He looked irresolutely down at the lustrous jewels in his hand.
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The door opens slowly, and an old woman, bending under the burden of seventy-five years, enters, and stands irresolutely at the entrance.
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Here she paused irresolutely, the recollection of the dismal, grasping solitude that dwelt beyond the portal sending again the chill to her bones.
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It was curious to see him peer about irresolutely now that he had no face.
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