waffleness

In too many instances the critical linkage between what the organization is trying to do and the employees who are going to have to do it represents a "waffleness" on the part of managers.

1992, Proceedings of the 46th Annual Ohio Transportation Engineering Conference, Columbus, Oh.: Ohio State University, page 20

Here's another vote for the waffle. It seems to me that a flipping coin is flipping because of outside pressures applied to it, and if left to itself would simply lie on the table. But a waffle waffles due to the waffleness of its own waffle nature.

1994 August 15, Keith Rogers, “Propellerhead Rally! (Doonesbury)”, in rec.arts.comics.strips (Usenet), archived from the original on 26 Nov 2024

If you want four more years of government dominance, dependency, welfare, “waffleness,” deficit, lack of character, etc., you’re endorsing the right party.

1996 April 13, Roger H. Elliott, Jr., “Break a habit”, in Corpus Christi Caller-Times, Corpus Christi, Tex.: Caller-Times Publishing Company, →ISSN, Letters to the Editor, page A10, column 5

Well as soon as I realised that I must have ME rather than the Crohn's disease that I was originally diagnosed with, as soon as I was sent to a consultant who'd been recommended by afME, I was diagnosed as having ME/CFS immediately, so I was never disbelieved once I'd been self, and then formally diagnosed if you see what I mean (plse excuse waffleness).

2002 February 7, Zsa Zsa, “Name that illness?”, in uk.people.support.cfs-me (Usenet), archived from the original on 26 Nov 2024

There are Latin tags, tempus edax rerum, as just one example of verbal atrocities and general waffleness, which I fear but seem unable to avoid.

2021, Richard Beard, “Separation”, in Sad Little Men: How Public Schools Failed Britain, London: Vintage, →ISBN