shilly-shally
adjective
Roget 605:
irresolute,
infirm of purpose,
double-minded,
half-hearted;
undecided,
unresolved,
undetermined;
shilly-shally;
fidgety,
tremulous;
hesitating
etc.
v.;
off one's balance;
at a loss
etc.
(uncertain)
475.
vacillating
etc.
v.;
unsteady
etc.
(changeable)
149;
unsteadfast†,
fickle,
without ballast;
capricious
etc.
608;
volatile,
frothy;
light,
lightsome,
light-minded;
giddy;
fast and loose.
weak,
feeble-minded,
frail;
timid,
wimpish,
wimpy
etc.
860;
cowardly
etc.
862;
dough-faced [U.S.];
facile;
pliant
etc.
(soft)
324;
unable to say 'no',
easy-going revocable,
reversible.
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Roget 683:
inactive;
motionless
etc.
265;
unoccupied
etc.
(doing nothing)
681;
unbusied†.
indolent,
lazy,
slothful,
idle,
lusk†,
remiss,
slack,
inert,
torpid,
sluggish,
otiose,
languid,
supine,
heavy,
dull,
leaden,
lumpish†;
exanimate†,
soulless;
listless;
drony†,
dronish†;
lazy as Ludlam's dog.
dilatory,
laggard;
lagging
etc.
v.;
slow
etc.
275;
rusty,
flagging;
lackadaisical,
maudlin,
fiddle-faddle;
pottering
etc.
v.;
shilly-shally
etc.
(irresolute)
605.
sleeping,
etc.
v.;
asleep;
fast asleep,
dead asleep,
sound asleep;
in a sound sleep;
sound as a top,
dormant,
comatose;
in the arms of Morpheus,
in the lap of Morpheus.
sleepy,
sleepful†;
dozy†,
drowsy,
somnolent,
torpescent†,
lethargic,
lethargical†;
somnifacient†;
statuvolent†,
statuvolic†;
heavy,
heavy with sleep;
napping;
somnific†,
somniferous;
soporous†,
soporific,
soporiferous†;
hypnotic;
balmy,
dreamy;
unawakened,
unawakened.
sedative
etc.
174.
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