Crossword-Solution: VACILLATE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Vacillate | v. t. | To move one way and the other; to reel or stagger; to waver. |
| Vacillate | v. t. | To fluctuate in mind or opinion; to be unsteady or inconstant; to waver. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
|---|---|---|
| VACILLATE | anagram | CAVATELLI |
We have 55 clues for the answer “VACILLATE”
| Clue | Answers |
|---|---|
| Keep changing | 2 answers |
| Cause a delay by being disorganised | 3 answers |
| Have trouble deciding | 6 answers |
| shuttle | 7 answers |
| BE indecisive | 10 answers |
| Deciding Have trouble | 10 answers |
| DECIDING TROUBLE | 10 answers |
| Dicker | 12 answers |
| Shilly-shally | 12 answers |
| BE unstable | 14 answers |
| Rise and fall | 15 answers |
| Teeter | 16 answers |
| Seesaw | 17 answers |
| not know which way to turn | 17 answers |
| be uncertain | 18 answers |
| have a problem | 18 answers |
| be in two minds | 18 answers |
| tremble in the balance | 18 answers |
| MOVE back and forth | 18 answers |
| sit on the fence | 19 answers |
| run into trouble | 19 answers |
| have a suspicion | 19 answers |
| be clumsy | 20 answers |
| be tentative | 20 answers |
| be in difficulty | 20 answers |
| lose the scent | 20 answers |
| strike a bad patch | 20 answers |
| wait and see | 20 answers |
| deciding | 21 answers |
| make heavy weather | 21 answers |
| shunt | 21 answers |
| foozle | 25 answers |
| Haggle | 25 answers |
| be irresolute | 27 answers |
| Depend | 30 answers |
| fluctuate | 30 answers |
| Muff | 34 answers |
| oscillate | 36 answers |
| Hover | 37 answers |
| flinch | 39 answers |
| go back and forth | 39 answers |
| await | 41 answers |
| Totter | 42 answers |
| fluff | 42 answers |
| Waver | 44 answers |
| Hesitate | 48 answers |
| Dither | 49 answers |
| Veer | 50 answers |
| Vibrate | 51 answers |
| Falter | 54 answers |
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Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with VACILLATE (5)
They were wise to vacillate on this, Mark observed, since their supply of printing standards was very limited.
The compass began to vacillate, and no longer pointed toward the north; this confused both Columbus and his pilots.
The double character which pertained to the Popes made them perpetually vacillate between two contradictory systems of policy.
Then he would begin to vacillate, remaining idle before the picture only to put it in the corner in hope of later inspiration.
Shadows seemed to come and go in them as if the steady flame of her soul had been made to vacillate at last in the cross-currents of poisoned air from the corrupted dark immensity claiming her for its own, where virtues themselves fester into crimes in the cynicism of oppression and revolt.
Quotes with VACILLATE (3)
On reflection, looking at shows like this and considering my own experiences, what fascinated me was that we have so many stories like this that help us empathize with monstrous men. “Yes, these men are flawed, but they are not as evil as this man.” Even more chilling, they tend to be stories that paint women as roadblocks, aggressors, antagonists, complications — but only in the context of them being a bitch, a whore, a Madonna. The women are never people. Stories about mons…
We incessantly vacillate between what’s behind us and what’s before us depending on the current barometer of our courage and the ambivalent nature of our vision.
Only those who vacillate have the possibility to regret. Those who know what they want, they have it easy; if everything goes wrong, they know they did not have a choice.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Newsday, NYT, WSJ.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1993–2007).