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adjective

Definition of stammeringnext
as in muttering

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stammering

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verb

present participle of stammer
as in stuttering
to speak with many pauses and repetitions He stammers when he's nervous.

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  1. hesitant
  2. halting
  3. inarticulate
Adjective
  • China's East Asian neighbors are also grappling with similar problems, characterized by rapidly aging populations and younger generations increasingly hesitant to have families.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
  • But a pill could help with current supply constraints and open the market to patients hesitant to taking injections.
    Bruce Gil, Quartz, 4 Nov. 2024
Definition of hesitant
Adjective
  • The Democratic Party has been engulfed in conversations over the past two weeks over whether Biden is the best candidate to beat former President Trump following his halting debate performance on June 27.
    Alex Gangitano, The Hill, 9 July 2024
  • Two weeks before the Butler attempt on Trump’s life, President Joe Biden had triggered a crisis in the Democratic Party with his halting debate performance.
    Philip Elliott, TIME, 17 Sep. 2024
Definition of halting
Adjective
  • Playing the 81-year-old president as aghast, confused, and inarticulate could easily amount to an unkind impersonation, but in Carvey’s masterful hands, there is zero heightening — only dead-on accuracy.
    Joe Berkowitz, Vulture, 29 Sep. 2024
  • The pod-person version of Sam is particularly unsettling — a swaying, inarticulate mass of flesh whose only purposes are to kill and to die — and that level of grotesquerie is hard to shake.
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 31 May 2024
Definition of inarticulate
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