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vacillator

[ vas-uh-ley-ter ]

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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Israel’s longest-serving prime minister, Mr. Netanyahu has long been portrayed as a vacillator who prefers to delay decisions for as long as possible so that he can keep all of his options open.

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

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

And, all along, he had been regarding himself as the weakling, the vacillator, when it was he who had held out the longest!

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

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