Translation for "shilly-shally" to spanish

Shilly-shally

noun

• titubeo

Translation examples

titubeo noun

And I'm glad Miss Margaret wrote off straight, without shilly-shallying.
Y me alegro de que la señorita Margaret escribiera en seguida sin titubeos.

They face you, no shilly-shallying, their arms raised, their wrists flexed, their palms facing outwards.
Te miran de frente, sin titubeos, los brazos levantados, las muñecas flexionadas mostrando las palmas.

Greenberger and Lang want an end to this shilly-shallying. Forgo U.S. government aid. Ignore Israeli as well as Arab calls for land for peace.
Greenberger y Lang quieren que se ponga fin a tantos titubeos, que se renuncie a la ayuda estadounidense, que para conseguir la paz se pasen por alto la reivindicación de territorio, tanto de árabes como de israelíes.

“Just like that?” “Yes, exactly like that.” Tyrer was also tired of the shilly-shallying, constantly reminded of John Canterbury’s violent death, Malcolm Struan’s serious wounds and Angelique’s terror.
—Sí, exactamente así —Tyrer también estaba cansado de tanto titubeo, y no podía olvidar ni un solo instante la violenta muerte de John Canterbury, las heridas de Malcolm Struan y el terror de Angélique—.

She would deliver what she had heard discussed there at suburban tables, what had been aborted by hesitations and doubts, the shilly-shallying of what was more effective between this commitment or that, this second-hand protest or that.
Transmitía lo que había oído en las mesas de los barrios residenciales, lo que se había traslucido de las vacilaciones y dudas, los titubeos sobre qué era más eficaz, este compromiso o aquél, esta protesta de segunda mano o aquélla.

When she awoke that day, it was to find a new servant by her bedside, a round-faced girl who told her after much shilly-shallying that Axa had been flogged and dismissed from the palace that morning on the orders of the king.
Al día siguiente, al despertar se encontró con una nueva sierva a los pies de la cama, una muchacha de rostro redondo que le contó, después de muchos titubeos, que Axa había sido flagelada y expulsada de palacio aquella misma mañana, por orden del rey.

titubear verb

He exclaimed: "When, after having given his definite promise that he would marry Soshimukhi, he began to waver and shilly-shally, we ought to have realised that it was the beginning of his downfall."
—Cuando, después de haber prometido casarse con Soshimukhi, empezó a titubear, debimos darnos cuenta de que su caída era inminente.

vacilante adjective

Not pushed and pulled by a parcel of incompetent, shilly-shallying senators who he knew were not his equals in anything.
No deseaba que un puñado de senadores incompetentes y vacilantes, que él sabía que no podían igualarse a él en nada, lo empujasen y tirasen de él.