Shillyshally definitions and example sentences on Wordnik

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the act of procrastinating; putting off or delaying or defering an action to a later time
postpone doing what one should be doing
be uncertain and vague

You've got to shillyshally, and then you've got to go it blind. — April Hopes
You'll have the moral courage to come right to the point when he would like to shillyshally, and you can be frank while he's trying to think how to make y-e-s spell no Any other little compliments, mother?" — April Hopes
'Two not sound, five true as steel, and the rest shillyshally. — Farina
Then a lot of shillyshally usually followed, Tom for and Dick and Harry against. — Ulysses
(John M'Iver the humblest of its members) built up on doubt and whim and shillyshally hither and yond? — John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn