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View definitions for hesitantly

hesitantly

adverb as in dubiously

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When Victoria challenges her spiritually curious daughter to spend the night at the Buddhist center to get a sense of what she’s in for long term, Piper hesitantly accepts.

When Attkisson asked when, he hesitantly answered, "I would say weeks, yeah — I would say weeks."

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The Vietnamese people smuggler emerged, briefly and hesitantly, from the shadows of a scraggly forest close to the northern French coastline.

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Tom asks if she's a Carolina or Duke fan and Savannah hesitantly says "To be honest, I was raised in a Carolina family. . ." but then Tom gives her a thumbs up and everyone laughs.

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Despite every instinct in Eve’s body telling her to refuse, she hesitantly invites the family inside, a horrible miscalculation leading to a series of chilling events.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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