dither
He was dithery and out of his depth.
You come across as dithery, ill-informed, and floundering.
She didn't want to be thought of as a dithery airhead.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Hesitating
backward
broken English
dilly-dally
dither
ditherer
halting
haltingly
hang
hang back
have a foot in both campsidiom
haw
hesitancy
hesitant
hesitantly
hesitate
hesitatingly
hum
pussyfoot
shilly-shally
sit on the fenceidiom
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