hesitatingly

comparative more hesitatingly · superlative most hesitatingly

1. In a hesitating manner.

   “’E’s awful bad, sir," said the voice, hesitatingly.

   1889, Rudyard Kipling, “Only A Subaltern”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 149

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   As he passed the drawing-room door he heard Ethel say hesitatingly: "I - I heard you singing from the verandah."

   1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, →OCLC, page 66