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shilly shallying
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shilly shallying
caution, cautious, cautiousness, dalliance, dallying, dawdling, delaying, demurring, diffidence, diffident, dilatoriness, dilatory, dillydallying, dragging, equivocation, falter, faltering, fluctuating, fluctuation, hesitance, hesitancy, hesitant, hesitating, hesitation, jibbing, lag, lagging, lingering, loitering, lollygagging, oscillating, oscillation, oscillatory, pendulating, pendulation, procrastination, procrastinative, procrastinatory, scrupling, shilly-shally, sticking, stickling, straining, tarrying, tentative, tentativeness, timid, vacillating, vacillation, vacillatory, wavering, wobbling, wobblyFor further exploring for "shilly shallying" in Webster Dictionary Online