Synonym: disinclination, falter, faltering, hesitancy, indisposition, reluctance, vacillation, waver, wavering. Similar words: hesitate, hesitant, agitation, habitation, invitation, limitation, levitation, elicitation. Meaning: [‚hezɪ'teɪʃən] n. 1. indecision in speech or action 2. a certain degree of unwillingness 3. the act of pausing uncertainly.
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121. They search for the meaning of life blindly with no hesitation in corrupting and hurting themselves.
122. These were very timely rains and outside markets are probably giving buyers hesitation, " Stevens said in a telephone interview from Mandeville, Louisiana."
123. They are intended to reduce bystanders' hesitation to assist, for fear of being sued or prosecuted for unintentional injury or wrongful death," as Wikipedia puts it.
124. I would go in the mornings and always find him busy with his studies, and with the inconsiderateness of youth, I felt no hesitation in disturbing him.
125. I have no hesitation in endorsing the view that everyone in the policymaking process should guard against the selective use of science or other analytical evidence to justify pre-chosen policies.
126. That is, well, excuse my hesitation, far off the point.
127. I answer without the slightest hesitation -- the united front and not closed-doorism.
128. Rotating one's hand around is a weakened form of shaking one's head in some English-speaking countries. This shows carelessness, hesitation. It also can indicate a homosexual or bisexual person.
129. When the train started off, he took down his valise and extracted, after some hesitation, the first volume of The Thousand and One Nights.
130. It is with diffidence and hesitation that I approach this work.
131. Her co-star, Rex Harrison, once was asked to identify his favorite leading lady. Without hesitation, he replied, "Audrey Hepburn in My Fair Lady."
132. Without hesitation, Billy Graham identified Franklin as his son. Then he proudly introduced him to every member of the board.
133. Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation. -Thomas Huxley.
134. Adding customers audio testimonials can be a simple, such as a telephone talk. It will help to nudge reticent buyers over their hesitation and into a sale.
135. And yet there need be no hesitation in relegating the Fourth Book of Esdras to the ranks of the apocrypha.
136. China, however, showed no hesitation at all about using its trade muscle to get its way in a political dispute, in clear — if denied — violation of international trade law.
137. We have no hesitation in accepting your most generous offer.
138. With only an instant's hesitation, Simon scrambled down the ladder into the hatchway.
139. Then, after a little hesitation, he added a fourth piece which he had long kept by him on the chance of his wanting to gamble a little some morning at the tea house.
140. At last, after renewed hesitation, Dant è s entered the second grotto.
141. That offer of a gob is to be grabbed at without hesitation.
142. Bryan is just about to captures drug dealer BARGA , Tang Yi joined without hesitation.
143. What he quotes from Levi-Strauss would seem, on the face of it, to have exactly the same kinds of reservation and hesitation about the emergence or birth of language that Derrida himself has.
144. Hesitation encourages the adversary to persevere[Sentencedict], may be even to raise the ante.
145. "It sounds great, " I ventured without hesitation, all the while feeling as if I'd signed on to cross dangerous borders using false papers.
146. After a moment's hesitation Feng Yun - ching handed over a hundred dollars.
147. Without hesitation he released therainy south wind and called upon the heartless Poseidon to help.
148. I had no hesitation in calling the police because I realised he was capable of murder.
149. "Twenty-three francs!" cried the woman, with an enthusiasm which was mingled with some hesitation.
150. On his way out the door, a brave customer pull his mask off. The robber shot the customer without a moment's hesitation.
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