vacillator

[vas-uh-ley-ter]

noun

1. someone who is indecisive or irresolute.

   People prefer an unequivocal position from their leaders; vacillators do not inspire confidence.

Word History and Origins

Origin of vacillator¹

vacillat(e) ( def. ) + -or ² ( def. )

Example Sentences

Israel’s longest-serving prime minister, Mr. Netanyahu has long been portrayed as a vacillator who prefers to delay decisions for as long as possible so that he can keep all of his options open.

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Ambivalence, as one super vacillator named Hamlet could tell you, is an unavoidable part of being human.

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Rather, he found himself depicted as a vacillator in publications like The New York Post, which campaigned for a crackdown.

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And, all along, he had been regarding himself as the weakling, the vacillator, when it was he who had held out the longest!

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Anything to arouse this personator of our human mutability, this vacillator between doing and letting alone!

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