dithery

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Etymology[edit]

dither +‎ -y

Adjective[edit]

dithery (comparative more dithery, superlative most dithery)

  1. Unable to think straight; tending to dither.
  2. Constantly moving about
  3. Characterized by dithering.
    • December 15 2022, Samanth Subramanian, “Dismantling Sellafield: the epic task of shutting down a nuclear site”, in The Guardian[1]:
      It has been a dithery decade for nuclear policy. After the 2011 disaster at the Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan, several countries began shuttering their reactors and tearing up plans for new ones.

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