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waffliness

waffliness noun: the quality of being waffly.

Noun

waffliness (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being waffly.
    • Funny, but there’s summat of her father in her. A kind of spiritual and mental ‘waffleyness’. It’s all he had to leave and by God, poor little ’Nanda got it. It’s a sort of ‘come day, go day, God send Sunday’ attitude towards life. Whenever she didn’t want to face up to things, she shrugged her...1937, Naomi Jacob, Fade Out, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC, book 2, chapter 6, section I, pages 148–149
    • Not everyone could tolerate him [Kingsley Martin]. George Orwell, for example, despised his waffliness.1973, Peter Coleman, “Not a man to go shooting tigers with”, in The Bulletin, volume 95, Sydney, N.S.W., →ISSN, page 43, column 3

Examples of waffliness in a sentence

  • Confronted with so much plenty, an editor is bound to display a certain waffliness.1999, Edgar Rosenberg, “Preface”, in Charles Dickens, Great Expectations: […] (A Norton Critical Edition), New York, N.Y.; London: W. W....
  • But inevitably it creates problems for the future, when foggy treaties and laws have to be put into effect.” Could this be one explanation for the waffliness of this Constitution’s English?2003 June 22, Sean Thomas, “Profile: The Draft European Constitution; Gobbledegook”, in The Sunday Telegraph, number 2,193, London, →ISSN...
  • New Hampshire’s governor, John Lynch, scuttled the measure, saying, “I know it’s true, but it makes my buttocks clench uncomfortably.” Wussy Democrats like that give this state its waffliness.2011, Roland Boyle [pseudonym; James Howard], “Swingin’ to the Right: A State-by-State Guide (Part 3)”, in The Tea Party Guide to Being a...
  • With a delight that she couldn’t hide, Miss Grenville strode towards Baby and Fingers’s cubicle with a purpose, the complete opposite to her usual vague waffliness.2021, J. M. Carr, “Baby’s Early Night”, in The Wonder Girls Resist, Southampton, Hampshire: The Cindy Press, →ISBN:

Forms of waffliness

alternative formwaffleness
alternative formwaffleyness
alternative formwafflyness

Origin of waffliness

From waffly + -ness.

Questions about waffliness

What does waffliness mean?
Waffliness means the quality of being waffly.
How do you use waffliness in a sentence?
Confronted with so much plenty, an editor is bound to display a certain waffliness.
What part of speech is waffliness?
Waffliness is a noun.

Words near waffliness in the dictionary

  1. wafflestompers
  2. waffley
  3. waffleyness
  4. wafflier
  5. waffliest
  6. waffliness
  7. waffling
  8. wafflingly
  9. wafflings
  10. waffly
  11. wafflyness

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