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  • noun One who dithers; one who is unable to decide; a procrastinator.

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Examples

  • Guaranteed bloodbath for the anti-American Radical Fringe Democratic Party in 2010 and as far as 2012 (if the ditherer is not impeached first) the end of the Marxist in chief.

    GOP airs ads against three Democrats 2009

  • However, critics have also accused Brown of being a leader without charisma and a "ditherer" - a label he has been unable to shake off ever since he decided against holding a general election a few months after being chosen by the party to succeed Blair in June 2007.

    The Earth Times Online Newspaper 2009

  • Ok, so Jack Straw may not quite have used the word "ditherer", but here's what he has to say about the PM in a Channel 4 documentary, aired tomorrow: "[Brown is] someonewho is cautious in his decision-making."

    Brown's a ditherer, says Straw 2008

  • Ok, so Jack Straw may not quite have used the word "ditherer", but here's what he has to say about the PM in a Channel 4 documentary, aired tomorrow: "[Brown is] someonewho is cautious in his decision-making."

    Brown's a ditherer, says Straw 2008

  • Ok, so Jack Straw may not quite have used the word "ditherer", but here's what he has to say about the PM in a Channel 4 documentary, aired tomorrow: "[Brown is] someonewho is cautious in his decision-making."

    Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me 2008

  • Brown is a proven 'ditherer' but Cameron is working hard to assume that mantle himself.

    Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010

  • YouGov, Populus et al. The Prime Minister cannot afford to look like a "ditherer" or a

    New Statesman 2009

  • Labour leader Neil Kinnock dubbed him "Manana Major" for always promising economic recovery was just around the corner and attacked him for being a "ditherer" and "delayer" for not calling an immediate election.

    Elections - fresh news by plazoo.com 2009

  • A senior source who has worked with Lyon described him as a 'ditherer', adding: 'John Lyon is not that well regarded.

    Home | Mail Online 2009

  • If Obama pulls out of Afghanistan, the GOP would have such a field day calling him quitter/"ditherer"/traitor and who knows what - that it would persuade all the people who were brain-washed into believing John Kerry was a traitor to vote him out of office in 2012; and he's the best hope we have of trying to reverse Bush's eight disastrous years of war, the abolishment of all social programs, and anything that didn't specifically benefit the rich.

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