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Definition of "vacillatory" [vac•il•la•to•ry]

  • Inclined to waver; irresolute. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "vacillatory" in a sentence
  • "His response to the political crisis over his spiritual advisers has been vacillatory, not conciliatory: first he stood by them, then he distanced himself from them."
  • "As to money, he had given her almost carte blanche, having at one vacillatory period of his Prime Ministership been talked by her into some agreement with her own plans."
  • "As to money, he had given her almost carte blanche, having at one vacillatory period of his"