waffley

Example Sentences

• "Mr. Crouse. Well, Mr. Chairman, I feel that any intelligent and reasonable man would have to answer that question in the affirmative. Mr. Levitas. I would think so, too, but I got sort of a waffley answer earlier today. So I was trying to ask it again."
• "“It is marvellous if someone loves you for just yourself. The trouble is, nobody seems to love me anything like that . . .” / Cassie’s father said quietly, “Nonsense, my dear, we are always loved by God, not in a waffley, airy-fairy sort of way but in a very down-to-earth fashion. It’s accepting that love which most people find hard, just as I suspect that you find it hard accepting your father’s love—or recognising it!”"
• "Well, if you remember the 1960 [Democratic national] convention, apparently, he waffled or appeared to be a "waffley" kind of governor."
• "We write short concise reviews, because there’s nothing more tedious than a waffley piece of writing which takes twenty minutes to get to its point, especially when most people only look at the final verdict anyway."
• "These differences meant that meetings of the Cabinet’s welfare committee have been unproductive, with a brooding Mr Field and a waffley and increasingly prickly Ms Harman."
• "I used to be a bit of a culprit for a waffley essay, that I didn’t actually know that much about what I was writing,. . ."