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shilly-shally
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Strange that people will have so much faith in shilly-shally!
"I have little experience of shilly-shally methods," replied his visitor.
I hear the shilly-shally policy of the English Government bitterly condemned.
I had rather be sent home to fight manfully, or to make peace politically, than to be in this miserable shilly-shally way here.
What keeps the simple man dallying shilly-shally at the fence, as if he actually wanted them to take him?
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On this page you'll find 664 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to shilly shally, such as: afraid, averse, backward, dawdling, delaying, and diffident.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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