Example Sentences

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The story begins when Prince Arjuna — after Hamlet, literature’s greatest ditherer — balks from battle.

From New York Times • Mar. 20, 2018

Cuomo could be firm and forceful about policy and philosophy, but he was a legendary ditherer when it came to decisions about his own future.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 12, 2015

Terry, the enforcer, appeared a lumbering ditherer on Saturday.

From New York Times • Apr. 18, 2010

Prince Charles, 42, is well versed in the public controversies he relishes, but he remains a remote man and a bit of a ditherer.

From Time Magazine Archive

You're a dear old Marguerite," he said softly, "and I'm not such a ditherer as you think.

From Bones in London by Wallace, Edgar