Adjective : an ineffectual, vacillating person. ,a vacillating indicator.    From Dictionary.com. 

Verb (used without object), : His tendency to vacillate makes him a poor leader.    From Dictionary.com. 

My friend, who may mildly be described as vacillating in temperament, left me in Calcutta.    From Wordnik.com.  [Autobiography of a Yogi] Reference

I think that there's a lot of us out there who are kind of vacillating in terms of 60-40 a lot in my own mind.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 1, 2008] Reference

I think there's a lot of us out there who are kind of vacillating between 60/40 a lot and in my own mind, I really need to see them both.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 1, 2008] Reference

But that is not as he would have the world believe, his only "vacillating" attempt at reconciliation.    From Wordnik.com.  [English Laws for Women in the Nineteenth Century] Reference

Red Herring report in March, Meffert noted some larger firms had started "vacillating" in their interest.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wi-Fi Networking News] Reference

This rational flexibility of policy you and your fellow radicals have been pleased to call my vacillating imbecility. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Clansman An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan] Reference

Prosecutors also said some of the alleged victims were "vacillating" about whether they would participate in the case if it went to trial.    From Wordnik.com.  [coloradoan.com - Local News] Reference

Political consultant Joseph Mercurio, who helped 2005 mayoral candidate C. Virginia Fields, said the mayor's "vacillating" has put the city's political class "into a wonderland.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Home | The New York Observer] Reference

June came and found her vacillating and uncertain.    From Wordnik.com.  [Other People's Business The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale] Reference

Their character generally is evasive and vacillating.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Philippine Islands] Reference

But the vacillating policy of the government would not permit it.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Woman's Life-Work — Labors and Experiences] Reference

None of this public vacillating can be good news for the White House.    From Wordnik.com.  [High-Court Hamlet] Reference

My judgment now is that he was vacillating and undecided in his actions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference

Buffon's utterances on this point are, as is well known, somewhat vacillating.    From Wordnik.com.  [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference

The old vacillating temper that he had shown in days gone by was his no longer.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Swedish Revolution Under Gustavus Vasa] Reference

After nearly three weeks of vacillating, the government revoked the land grant.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why Can’t We Be Friends?] Reference

"The government is vacillating and indecisive," says dissident Elizardo Sanchez.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 'Worms' Become Butterflies] Reference

Haiti's once and perhaps future leader can be prickly, imperious, vacillating and whiny.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Man In Haiti] Reference

It is small wonder that the measures of such a congress, when not vacillating, were weak.    From Wordnik.com.  [Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death] Reference

They were a weak, vacillating company of men, but suddenly there came a remarkable change.    From Wordnik.com.  [And Judas Iscariot Together with other evangelistic addresses] Reference

To be ruthless and frightful in a half-hearted, nervous, vacillating fashion is ridiculous.    From Wordnik.com.  [New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 4, July, 1915 April-September, 1915] Reference

It was a panacea, a temporary opiate to quiet the vacillating condition of a restless mind; yet my.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Woman's Life-Work — Labors and Experiences] Reference

He was weak and vacillating in his attempts at government, and foolish and dissipated in his private life.    From Wordnik.com.  [India and the Indians] Reference

Weak and vacillating men yielded to her rapid insight, her vigor, her earnestness, and her persuasive eloquence.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Women of the French Salons] Reference

Webster for his vacillating policy in the slavery agitation, we read it again with a renewed and more vivid interest.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide] Reference

But when she had only her intellect to rely upon, all was uncertain, and she became weak, vacillating, and dependent.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius] Reference

How many times have I followed in the darkness the pale and vacillating gleams of a spark flickering in abortive life!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

Iron men, therefore, were soon in demand, to replace the more vacillating officials who had served the first Alexander.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Genius] Reference

We want no vacillating counsels; no time-serving apologies; no coldness, no reluctance, no shrinking back in this cause.    From Wordnik.com.  [Select Temperance Tracts] Reference

He was fretful, irritable and vacillating; would desire one thing to-day, another to-morrow; never long of the same mind.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Electric Bath] Reference

If you are tentative, hesitant, punitive or vacillating, you are giving mixed messages and can no longer be trusted to lead.    From Wordnik.com.  [Judith Acosta, LISW, CHT: Leading With Love: Kid Whispering, Dogs and Verbal First Aid] Reference

But the glowering, vacillating looks he received here and there succeeded in impressing him only with the extent of his responsibility.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Return of Blue Pete] Reference

But while the policy of the southern Treasury was weak, vacillating and destructive, that of the northern was strong, bold and cautious.    From Wordnik.com.  [Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death] Reference

I love Louise but it is a vacillating love, which is to say there are several moments of the day where I feel nothing like love for her.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nigtingale] Reference