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adjective

irresolute

showing hesitancy; uncertain or indecisive

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Six example sentences with irresolute, each labelled with its topic.

  • The prince stands irresolute for four acts, drawing up a plan and abandoning it twice a scene while everyone waits.

    Literature

  • An irresolute founder shelved the product twice and revived it three times, and the engineers left before the fourth reversal.

    Startups

  • The camera holds on him standing irresolute in the doorway, keys in hand, stepping forward once and then back again.

    Movies

  • The coach looked irresolute in the final timeout, drawing up one play, erasing it, and sending the team out without a call.

    Basketball

  • An irresolute cabinet announced the rail plan on Monday, paused it on Wednesday, and by Friday nobody knew if it existed.

    Politics

  • Irresolute investors sold at the bottom, bought back higher a week later, and sold again the day before the rally.

    Finance

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