What is "dithering"

Usage examples of "dithering".

She and the Fort Hold women converged on Harper Tuero and the healer, who was now dithering, his face cloth hanging from his limp hand.

Essentially, once Paulus's army surrendered at Stalingrad, the Caucasus Force faced a complete cutoff of their line of retreat After considerable dithering, Hitler put the very able General von Manstein in charge of the northern and most threatened of these luckless armies, to pull him out of the mess.

Instead he went over to Vess, who was dithering about in an agitated manner.

He stood before the mirror, dithering, trying to make up his mind whether he would rather see the horror, or just worry whether it was getting worse.

But if Merise, of all people, was dithering over a collar pin - Merise, who managed her Warders with a firm hand - then new boundaries would have to be worked out, at least with Warders who could channel.

I've been dithering for ages, and now that it isn't my choice I'm as much relieved as anything.

They sound like dithering idiots, scared silly and looking for somewhere to hide.

No fuss, no confusion, no dithering about altered escorts or who would be left to descend alone: everything was already worked out, planned down to the last detail, including the unexpected.

It didn’t take long to accomplish the transfer, but Sorka noticed that the amount of dithering was aggravating her lover.

Of all the irresponsible, ineffectual, dithering idiots I have ever encountered.

She brushed past a dithering Jayge and on to the wide verandah, a hammock slung on its "breeze' corner.

He was becoming impatient with Felix's dithering, and his impatience was likely to force her hand.

But I knew I was just dithering, and that the longer I put it off, the worse it would be.

Mom is scarily efficient, so this dithering told me how upset she was.

He was growing accustomed to the ditherings of the kender's companion, but it still bothered him.