Crossword-Solution: HESITANCY 9 letters, 14 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 17

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Word Word Type Definition
Hesitancy n. The act of hesitating, or pausing to consider; slowness
in deciding; vacillation; also, the manner of one who hesitates.
Hesitancy n. A stammering; a faltering in speech.

We have 14 clues for the answer “HESITANCY”

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Indecisiveness. 1 answer
doubtfulness 12 answers
tentativeness 12 answers
timidity 30 answers
fluctuation 34 answers
diffidence 46 answers
wavering 52 answers
irresolution 56 answers
unbelief 56 answers
Indecision 57 answers
PERPLEXED state 59 answers
vacillation 61 answers
demur 79 answers
Spot 120 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with HESITANCY (5)

Fred liked, too, the doctor’s manner with Thea, his bashful admiration and the little hesitancy by which he betrayed his consciousness of the change in her.
The Song of the Lark Willa Cather 1992
Once General Grant was asked a question about a matter which had been much debated by the public and the newspapers; he answered the question without any hesitancy.
What Is Man? And Other Stories Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 1993
They entered the room--this unfamiliar masculine haunt, where their husbands, brothers, and sons spent so much of their time--with a certain show of hesitancy and little, nervous, oblique glances, moving their heads from side to side like a file of hens venturing into a strange barn.
The Octopus Frank Norris 2008
The very slowness and hesitancy of the effect increased its fascination: it was delicious to lean over and look down into the dim abysses of unconsciousness.
The house of Mirth Edith Wharton 1995
Peter’s an experienced-looking gentleman in a full-bottomed wig was pointing out the fairly obvious monument to a bashful companion, who had presumably not ventured to raise his eyes to it; while, at the doors of the Seraglio, a group of turbaned infidels observed with less hesitancy the approach of a veiled lady on a camel.
The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton, Part 2 (of 10) Edith Wharton 1995

Quotes with HESITANCY (3)

Hesitancy is the surest destroyer of talent. One cannot be timorous and reticent, one must be original and loud. New metaphors, new rhythms, new expressions of emotion can only spring from unhindered gall. Nothing should interfere with that intuition--not the fear of appearing stupid, nor of offending somebody, nor jeopardizing publication, nor being trivial. The intuition must be as unhindered as a karate chop.
Stephen Dobyns Best Words, Best Order: Essays on Poetry
Yes, I hate orthodox criticism. I don't mean great criticism, like that of Matthew Arnold and others, but the usual small niggling, fussy-mussy criticism, which thinks it can improve people by telling them where they are wrong, and results only in putting them in straitjackets of hesitancy and self-consciousness, and weazening all vision and bravery.... I hate it because of all the potentially shining, gentle, gifted people of all ages, that it snuffs out every year. It is a …
Brenda Ueland If You Want to Write: A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit
Until one is committed there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initative or creation, there is one elementary truth... that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves. too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would otherwise never have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in ones's favor all manner of incidents and meetings and material assistance which no man woul…
W.H. Murray
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