Yes, they were all shilly-shally from first to last," continued the old sailor, warming up to his theme.
How could I succeed out there when those nincompoops at home in the Ministry did not want me to do anything but play their miserable shilly-shally game of drifting with the tide and doing nothing!
So do then; but whatever you do, don't shilly-shally no longer.
She lost not one of her forty-five minutes in picking and choosing, - - no shilly-shally in Kate.
He's a poor shilly-shally sort of a fellow, or he'd believe in her as I do.
Ienkinsons laudable and well-begun enterprise, vnder the foresayd Shaugh Thamas, vnder Shally Murzey the new king of Hircan, and lastly our traffique with Osman Basha the great Turkes lieutenant at Derbent.
Which, by the way, amounts to an admission that he does shilly-shally sometimes.
I never go back upon it, nor shilly-shally with anybody when I have once nodded my head.
I have little experience of shilly-shally methods," replied his visitor.
The refusal in the dispatch re-echoes the convictions of the American people; its shilly-shally conditionality is exclusively Sewardism and only fit to catch a Russian diplomat in Washington.
Descend, sir, from your shilly-shally generalities and verbal fallacies.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shally" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
