dither
noun
a trembling; vibration.
ditherer
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a word derived from
dither.
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
And wondering why the screenwriter, David Hare, and the director, Stephen Daldry, turn Woolf, a woman of incisive mind, into a hapless 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 Edgar Wallace
