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61veering — n. 1. Shifting, turning, change of course. 2. Tergiversation, fickleness, instability, vacillation. 3. Trimming, temporizing, time serving, shifting …
62dilatory — adjective 1) he had been dilatory in appointing an executor Syn: slow, tardy, unhurried, sluggish, sluggardly, snaillike, lazy Ant: fast, prompt 2) dilatory procedural tactics Syn …
63hedge — 1. noun 1) high hedges Syn: hedgerow, bushes; windbreak 2) an excellent hedge against a fall in the dollar Syn: safeguard, protection, shield, screen, guard, buffer, cushion; insurance …
64indecision — noun many an opportunity has been lost to indecision Syn: indecisiveness, irresolution, hesitancy, hesitation, tentativeness; ambivalence, doubt, doubtfulness, uncertainty, incertitude; vacillation, wavering, equivocation, second thoughts; shilly …
65slow — adj 1 *stupid, dull, dense, crass, dumb 2 Slow, dilatory, laggard, deliberate, leisurely can apply to persons, their movements, or their actions, and mean taking a longer time than is necessary, usual, or sometimes, desirable. Slow (see also… …
66tendency — tendency, trend, drift, tenor can mean a movement or course having a particular direction and character or the direction and character which such a movement or course takes. Tendency usually implies an inherent or acquired inclination in a person …
67dilatory — adj 1. procrastinating, postponing, deferring, tabling, shelving; slow, lagging, laggard, sluggish, backward; dallying, dillydallying, shillyshallying, idling; lingering, loitering, dawdling, tarrying, Chiefly Brit. pottering; lackadaisical,… …
68tardiness — n lateness, slowness, dilatoriness, cunc tation, Inf. pokiness; sluggishness, indolence, sloth, inertia, laziness, torpor; lethargy, languor; dawdling, fiddling around, Sl. screwing around, frittering away one s time; reluctance, hesitation,… …
69temporize — UK [ˈtempəraɪz] / US [ˈtempəˌraɪz] verb [intransitive] Word forms temporize : present tense I/you/we/they temporize he/she/it temporizes present participle temporizing past tense temporized past participle temporized formal to delay doing… …
70noncommittal — [adj] unwilling to decide ambiguous, buttoned up*, careful, cautious, circumspect, clammed up*, constrained, discreet, equivocal, evasive, even steven*, guarded, hush hush*, incommunicable, indefinite, judicious, middle ground*, middleof the… …
