vacillation

• Something in the Wanli's combination of intelligence and vacillation, his permanent discontent and his occasional bursts of vengeful fury, made the court of his old age a flayed and exhausted nest of intrigues. —  THE YEARS OF RICE AND SALT - Kim Stanley Robinson
• He berated Adams in nearly every way possible—for his “great intrinsic defects of character,” his “disgusting egotism,” weaknesses, vacillation, his “eccentric tendencies,” his “bitter animosity” toward his own cabinet. —  John Adams by David McCullough
• Public sentiment would now sustain—after great vacillation, and all his friends were bent upon it Besides, I promised my God I would do it. —  The Lincoln Story Book
• This manner of conducting a treatise I find indeed extremely conducive to impartiality and largeness of view; but can conceive it to be--to the general reader--not only disappointing, (if indeed I may flatter myself that I ever interest enough to disappoint), but even liable to confirm in his mind some of the fallacious and extremely absurd insinuations of adverse critics respecting my inconsistency, vacillation, and liability to be affected by changes of the weather in my principles or opinions. —  Our Fathers Have Told Us Part I. The Bible of Amiens
• But in the measures taken to put down the rebellion we can see nothing but incapacity, vacillation, and even timidity. —  A History of the Four Georges, Volume I (of 4)

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