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Meanings of shillyshally in English

Portuguese
procrastinação

The act of procrastinating; putting off or delaying or defering an action to a later time.

        procrastinação
        Portuguese
        adiar
        Spanish
        aplazar

        Postpone doing what one should be doing.

            adiar
            Synonyms
            Examples for "procrastination"
            Examples for "procrastination"
            1
            But this procrastination of actual hostilities was terminated in the following manner:-
            Rattlin the Reefer
            2
            For a while, I thought the root of the problem was procrastination.
            The Irish Times
            3
            Will this get us closer to our aim despite the Israeli procrastination?
            Reuters
            4
            In our business, there's no time for doubts, no time for procrastination.
            Occupied city
            5
            When do you stop reading articles on procrastination and actually stop procrastinating?
            The Irish Times
            1
            Strive not to run, like Hercules, a furlong in a breath: festination may prove precipitation; deliberating delay may be wise cunctation, and slowness no slothfulness.
            Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Vol...
            Usage of shillyshally in English
            1
            I've had enough of this shillyshally.
            The Mark of Cain
            2
            'Two not sound, five true as steel, and the rest shillyshally.
            Farina
            Translations for shillyshally
            Spanish
            aplazar
            Shillyshally through the time