Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a hesitating manner.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb With hesitation or doubt.
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- adverb In a
hesitating manner.
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- adverb with hesitation; in a hesitant manner
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Examples
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In the gloom of early evening Chris spoke my name hesitatingly.
Flowers in the Attic V.C. Andrews 1979
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In the gloom of early evening Chris spoke my name hesitatingly.
Flowers in the Attic V.C. Andrews 1979
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He was a very respectable man who had amassed a decent fortune from the sale of iron bedsteads; yet how could I bring myself to think that this embarrassed-looking, ill-dressed, timid little creature could, with a word hesitatingly uttered, unite me in eternal bonds?
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She pronounced his name hesitatingly, half appealingly.
Ramona 1921
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Colin '– hesitatingly,' I did think you'd have come and looked after an old friend at the big Show in the Botanical Gardens when the Governor made his State Entry. '
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"A being akin to yourself," he said in low tones, "only developed, enormously developed; a Master in your own peculiar region, and a man whose influence acting upon you at close quarters could not fail to arouse the latent mind-storms" -- he chose the word hesitatingly, as though seeking for a better he could not find on the moment, -- "always brewing in you just below the horizon."
The Centaur Algernon Blackwood 1910
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The opposite wall took up the name hesitatingly and tossed it back.
Overland Red A Romance of the Moonstone Cañon Trail Henry Herbert Knibbs 1909
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"Knowing --" he took up the word hesitatingly -- "knowing that life would be insupportable to me if I could not be near you."
The Damnation of Theron Ware Harold Frederic 1877
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He was a very respectable man who had amassed a decent fortune from the sale of iron bedsteads; yet how could I bring myself to think that this embarrassed-looking, ill-dressed, timid little creature could, with a word hesitatingly uttered, unite me in eternal bonds?
Monsieur, Madame, and Bebe — Complete Gustave Droz 1863
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She pronounced his name hesitatingly, half appealingly.
Ramona Helen Hunt Jackson 1857
bness commented on the word hesitatingly
What's the difference between hesitatingly and hesitantly?
March 26, 2008
seanahan commented on the word hesitatingly
The way I see it, moving hesitantly is slowing moving towards a goal. Moving hesitantingly is moving in spurts, each of them hesitant.
March 26, 2008