Hesitancy is valid Scrabble Word

Is hesitancy a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is hesitancy valid Words with Friends?
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9 letters word
17 points in Scrabble
17 points in WWF

Definitions for HESITANCY in dictionary:

NOUN:

wavering, doubt, also HESITANCE
the quality or state of being hesitant
The act of hesitating, or pausing to consider; slowness in deciding; vacillation; also, the manner of one who hesitates.
A stammering; a faltering in speech.
a feeling of diffidence and indecision about doing something
a certain degree of unwillingness

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

the quality or state of being hesitant; as indecision; reluctance

Words related to HESITANCY

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How to use HESITANCY in a sentence

His hesitancy had been only the foolish scruples of an over sensitive conscience.
Then came second thoughts, bringing doubt, hesitancy, mental struggling.
She received the introduction in her usual gracious manner, and without the least hesitancy or embarrassment joined in the conversation.
On a sudden Maudelain knew himself to be invincible and fine, and hesitancy ebbed.
She loved McTeague now with a blind, unreasoning love that admitted of no doubt or hesitancy.
Hartmut was accustomed to the abrupt, military manner of his father, for in all his intercourse with him, no superfluous word, no hesitancy or evasion of an answer, was permitted.
There was no hesitancy, no indecision in the free swing of the shoulders, nor did his steps once falter, nor the eyes that bored deep into hers waver for a single instant.
She is gaining steadily and I have no hesitancy in recommending Lydia E.
Any hesitancy he had in regard to riding the outlaw was the outcome of discretion rather than of fear.
Yet now at last thy wife can come to thee without a doubt, without a tremor, all hesitancy gone, all she is, and all she has, quite simply, thine.

No shade, however, of hesitancy appeared on the open countenance of the friend.
In such cases the entire number system is scanty, and the creeping hesitancy with which progress is made is visible in the forms which the numerals are made to take.
Bright obeyed, began with much hesitancy, but found his tongue and made an excellent address.
In the tropics there is no hesitancy about sunrise.
Dave informed him that Bob and Quince and three of the other boys would meet us at the cattle, and that he need feel no hesitancy in going if it was his wish.
This hesitancy was a glaring testimony to the loose thinking and careless literary habits of those days.
That moment of hesitancy proved fatal to his project, for with a little excited scream the girl dived under his outstretched arm and fled back towards the fountain.
The heavy, sickly sweet odour almost overpowered them, but, grimly set upon their purpose, they, after one moment of hesitancy, crept on.
He did not show the slightest sign of hesitancy, but stooping down placed some object on the floor, after which he began to raise the plank as though familiar with its working.
Yet with no halt or hesitancy, the gray mass moved slowly across the lawn, and then deliberately formed in line beneath the trees of the orchard.
She would have no hesitancy in making her choice, were she free to do so, and states might go hang for all she would care.
Whatever hesitancy had kept Albert from talking to Katy about Smith Westcott was all gone now, and he went home to denounce him bitterly.
She took a taste of the liquid, then paused, again assailed by a curious hesitancy.
Helen inquired as to the health of the sick relative at Nottingham, and received a reply in which vagueness was mingled with hesitancy and a blush.
The fact was pointed out that the situation was causing an uncertainty and hesitancy in business circles which was detrimental to all American interests.
Those few words with Lucas Errol had decided her beyond all hesitancy, so completely was she in sympathy with this strong friend of hers.
I observed a degree of hesitancy in her answers for which I could not account.
Agias, however, had grounds, he thought, for hesitancy.
He owed his escape to the hesitancy of his opponents and his own mobility.
So, taking the whole new constitution, I have no hesitancy in giving it as my judgment that it is decidedly better than the old.

Similar words containing HESITAN without suffix cy

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