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hesitation
vs
shilly-shallying
hesitation
noun
An act of hesitating
A faltering in speech; stammering.
doubt; vacillation.
shilly-shallying
noun
The action of the verb
How often have the words
hesitation
and
shilly-shallying
occurred in a corpus of books?
(source:
Google Ngram Viewer
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