Usually means: Hesitating or procrastinating; indecisive delay.
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  1. shilly-shallying: Merriam-Webster
  2. shilly-shallying: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. shilly-shallying, shilly-shallying: Collins English Dictionary
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  5. shilly-shallying: Wiktionary
  6. shilly-shallying: Dictionary.com
  7. shilly-shallying: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ noun:  An act of procrastination of vacillation.

Similar:
vacillation, whillywha, swither, hesitation, hawing, shimmying, cavilling, Hollywooding, quailing, stammering, more...

Opposite:
decisiveness, determination, resoluteness, firmness



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Similar:
vacillation, whillywha, swither, hesitation, hawing, shimmying, cavilling, Hollywooding, quailing, stammering, more...

Opposite:
decisiveness, determination, resoluteness, firmness



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