vacillator

American  

[vas-uh-ley-ter] / ˈvæs əˌleɪ tər /

noun

1. someone who is indecisive or irresolute.

   People prefer an unequivocal position from their leaders; vacillators do not inspire confidence.

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Etymology

Origin of vacillator

vacillat(e) ( def. ) + -or ² ( def. )

Example Sentences

My own belief is that the view of Kennedy as a vacillator and flip-flopper is unfair and overwrought.

From Slate • May 26, 2017

Ambivalence, as one super vacillator named Hamlet could tell you, is an unavoidable part of being human.

From New York Times • Mar. 2, 2014

Rather, he found himself depicted as a vacillator in publications like The New York Post, which campaigned for a crackdown.

From New York Times • Nov. 15, 2011

Anything to arouse this personator of our human mutability, this vacillator between doing and letting alone!

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 72, October, 1863 by Various

But I do despise a vacillator, and I am one.

From The Colossus A Novel by Read, Opie Percival