irresolute

Example Sentences

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But in hindsight some historians say the Shah was too weak, slow and irresolute in repression.

From Reuters • Oct. 6, 2022

That phrase is a call back to the ancestors and an acknowledgment that you were not raised to be fearful and irresolute.

From Washington Post • Oct. 18, 2021

People seeking a summer action thriller in The Green Knight will be puzzled and perhaps annoyed by this irresolute final shot.

From Slate • Jul. 29, 2021

In one of these stories told over dinner, a man identifies another hard-wired human impulse: "the desire to resolve the irresolute, to conclude the incomplete, to have the crooked made straight."

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 23, 2018

My courage, watery and irresolute to begin with, ebbed away.

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly