vacillatory

His response to the political crisis over his spiritual advisers has been vacillatory, not conciliatory: first he stood by them, then he distanced himself from them.

Meanwhile, Back at Trinity United 2008

As to money, he had given her almost carte blanche, having at one vacillatory period of his Prime Ministership been talked by her into some agreement with her own plans.

The Prime Minister 1876

As to money, he had given her almost carte blanche, having at one vacillatory period of his

The Prime Minister Anthony Trollope 1848

-- Disgusted with Musa's vacillatory conduct, on the 22d I sent him a letter containing a bit of my mind.

The Discovery of the Source of the Nile John Hanning Speke 1845

While these vacillatory measures were going on at the viceregal palace, information was brought to the oydors, that the viceroy had drawn out his troops in the great square, with the intention of attacking them.

A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels - Volume 05 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time Robert Kerr 1784

Dylan made it through rounds one and two, surviving some difficult words for a boy his age, including: civitas, vacillatory, onychorrhexis and quomodo, to name just a few.

unknown title 2009

For Lee, the 82nd Scripps National Spelling Bee began with the Round 1 written test, which included words such as asylum, congenital, vacillatory, onychorrhexis and abyss.

unknown title 2009

They are always "struggling to survive" and the vacillatory vagueries of the parameters of "poverty" is just one of the "demons" that they bravely fight.

Capitol Hill Coffee House 2009

But, of course, some of this may have to do with the problem that you can’t be extremist unless you actually have an ideology or something else to be extreme about, and the Democratic party right now is entirely without ideology, principles, direction, or any goals beyond “get re-elected”… so a bland, noncommital, vacillatory candidate may be about as close to the idea of a Democrat extremist as one can get.

Argento v. Coulter - The Panda's Thumb 2006

"Why, my course here in the United States," said the Old Year -- "though perhaps I ought to blush at the confession -- my political course, I must acknowledge, has been rather vacillatory, sometimes inclining toward the Whigs, then causing the administration party to shout for triumph, and now again uplifting what seemed the almost prostrate banner of the opposition; so that historians will hardly know what to make of me in this respect.

Twice Told Tales Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834