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• r  with hesitation; in a hesitant manner
  he finally accepted hesitantly

• Cory walked to the side of the bar and hesitantly made my drink.
• The man by the pillar smiles hesitantly at Fifi.
• The man shook my hand hesitantly and told me his name.

• hesitatingly

• unhesitatingly

News & Articles

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• Mount Vernon grabs improbable soccer title
  Lucas Belanger stood stock-still on the goal line, trying not to contemplate the surreal images swirling in front of him. He watched an opponent advance hesitantly forward, as if in slow motion, to a spot precisely 12 yards in front of him.
  June 13, 2013 - The Fairfax County Times

Quotes

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• Bernd Schuster in SkySports
  He's a player who knows how to win games,Schuster said. "He started hesitantly but after he got his first goal, he was outstanding, playing with much more confidence."
• Alan Greenspan in StreetInsider.com (subscription)
  Babe of Bethlehem, Prophet of peace, encourage attempts to promote dialogue and reconciliation, sustain the efforts to build peace, which hesitantly, yet not without hope, are being made to bring about a more tranquil present and future for so many... Pope John Paul II http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_John_Paul_II&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNFcYWFkmP3i2A-5FDSHApXc2eu50g USA Today http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2004-12-24-pope_x.htm%3FPOE%3DNEWISVA&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNEy4fFwEnE_N_cyiMFG540V4hKmPA Dec 24, 2004 46863 63634 hesitantly At a speech Greenspan gave Georgetown's law school, Greenspan said, Trust will eventually reemerge as investors dip hesitantly back into the marketplace. From that point, history tells us, financial and economic revival sets in. I suspect it will...