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What (who) is VACILLATE - definition
vacillate
v. (D; intr.) to vacillate between; in
vacillate
(vacillates, vacillating, vacillated)
If you vacillate between two alternatives or choices, you keep changing your mind. (FORMAL)
She vacillates between men twice her age and men younger than she...
We cannot vacillate on the question of the party's leadership.
VERB: V between pl-n, V
vacillate
v. n.
1.
Sway, rock, move to and fro, have an unsteady motion, waver.
2.
Waver, fluctuate, hesitate, be inconstant, be unsettled, be unsteady, play fast and loose, blow hot and cold, box the compass, run with the hare and hunt with the hound, be a weathercock.
Examples of use of VACILLATE
1. The needle of suspicion should vacillate from one character to another, keeping the viewer guessing till the finale.
2. The public system would pay out a set amount to pensioners, unlike a private system that could vacillate more widely depending on the market.
3. They have further intensified sanctions and blockade against it than ever before in a bid to make it vacillate before difficulties and yield to them.
4. "She is not one who would vacillate back and forth in a world of mushy standards, which is what I think O‘Connor did," said Leonard A.
5. Or did he vacillate too long, possibly in fear of the so–called "ninjas," a group of female Koran students dressed in the robes of avenging angels and determined to commit suicide attacks, holed up in the mosque?