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to and fro
adjective as in back and forth
noun as in hesitation
Weak matches
- averseness
- dawdling
- delay
- delaying
- demurral
- doubt
- dubiety
- equivocation
- faltering
- fluctuation
- fumbling
- hemming and hawing
- hesitancy
- indecision
- indecisiveness
- indisposition
- irresoluteness
- irresolution
- misgiving
- mistrust
- oscillation
- pause
- procrastination
- qualm
- reluctance
- scruple
- shilly-shally
- skepticism
- stammering
- stumbling
- stuttering
- tentativeness
- timidity
- timidness
- unwillingness
- vacillation
- wavering
Example Sentences
After a few hours of to-and-fro with his commander, the squad was given permission to do what they wanted with him.
It was not difficult to fancy he saw an indistinct moving to-and-fro below him.
He called, groaned, hissed that name, while his to-and-fro ranging quickened to a trot.
A young man, member of the church, by the name of Teams stepped out in the aisle and began to yell and stamp and walk to-and-fro.
When we make a rapid to-and-fro motion we send out great waves in the æther.
There is no peace for us so long as the coil is kept revolving; we are kept in a constant state of rapid to-and-fro motion.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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