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demurral
noun as in delay
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noun as in doubt
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noun as in expostulation
noun as in hesitation
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noun as in indecisiveness
Strong matches
noun as in irresoluteness
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noun as in irresolution
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noun as in objection
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noun as in protest
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noun as in protestation
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- cavil
- censure
- challenge
- criticism
- declination
- demur
- difficulty
- disapprobation
- disapproval
- discontent
- disesteem
- disinclination
- dislike
- displeasure
- dissatisfaction
- doubt
- exception
- expostulation
- grievance
- gripe
- hesitation
- kick
- odium
- opposition
- protest
- question
- rejection
- reluctance
- remonstrance
- remonstration
- revilement
- scruple
- shrinking
- squawk
- stink
- unwillingness
Weak matches
noun as in question
noun as in remonstration
Strong matches
- cavil
- censure
- challenge
- criticism
- declination
- demur
- difficulty
- disapprobation
- disapproval
- discontent
- disesteem
- disinclination
- dislike
- displeasure
- dissatisfaction
- doubt
- exception
- expostulation
- grievance
- gripe
- hesitation
- kick
- odium
- opposition
- protest
- protestation
- question
- rejection
- reluctance
- remonstrance
- revilement
- scruple
- shrinking
- squawk
- stink
- unwillingness
Weak matches
noun as in retardation
Strong matches
noun as in tentativeness
Weak matches
- averseness
- dawdling
- delay
- delaying
- doubt
- dubiety
- equivocation
- faltering
- fluctuation
- fumbling
- hemming and hawing
- hesitancy
- indecision
- indecisiveness
- indisposition
- irresoluteness
- irresolution
- misgiving
- mistrust
- oscillation
- pause
- procrastination
- qualm
- reluctance
- scruple
- shilly-shally
- skepticism
- stammering
- stumbling
- stuttering
- timidity
- timidness
- to and fro
- unwillingness
- vacillation
- wavering
noun as in timidness
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noun as in to and fro
Weak matches
- averseness
- dawdling
- delay
- delaying
- doubt
- dubiety
- equivocation
- faltering
- fluctuation
- fumbling
- hemming and hawing
- hesitancy
- indecision
- indecisiveness
- indisposition
- irresoluteness
- irresolution
- misgiving
- mistrust
- oscillation
- pause
- procrastination
- qualm
- reluctance
- scruple
- shilly-shally
- skepticism
- stammering
- stumbling
- stuttering
- tentativeness
- timidity
- timidness
- unwillingness
- vacillation
- wavering
Example Sentences
In consequence, another Israeli scholar (a founder of Peace Now) filed a minority demurral.
As I hoped and expected, he could not do that and responded without a word of demurral or argument on the merits.
The same causes of demurral existed which prevented British troops from assisting in the expulsion of the French from Rome.
Enter demurral and private petition to those high courts and abstract legislatures!
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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