Synonyms:
faltering
Meaning: unsteady in speech or action
noun
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
hesitation, waver, falter, faltering
Meaning: the act of pausing uncertainly; "there was a hesitation in his speech"
Usage examples
There was a faltering in his voice.
"Here you are!" she began, faltering with joy.
A few days afterwards, as they were seated in the drawing-room, where Jos had fallen asleep with great comfort after dinner, Amelia said with rather a faltering voice to Major Dobbin--
While my heels thrust the cabbage-man beyond the horizon, my toes were drawing me, faltering, like a timid old beggar, into a roaring spate of humanity--men, women, and children without end.
And a man replied, in a faltering voice, that each year a beautiful girl was chosen by lot to be offered up to a dreadful fiery dragon, who had a mother even worse than himself, and this year the lot had fallen on their peerless princess.