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stickling
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stickling
bashful, bashfulness, boggle, boggling, cautious, compunction, demur, demurral, demurring, diffidence, diffident, falter, faltering, hesitance, hesitancy, hesitant, hesitating, hesitation, jibbing, modest, modesty, objection, pause, protest, qualm, qualm of conscience, qualmish, qualmishness, recoil, scruple, scrupling, scrupulosity, scrupulous, scrupulousness, shilly-shallying, shrinking, shy, shyness, squeamish, sticking, straining, tentative, timidFor further exploring for "stickling" in Webster Dictionary Online