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dithery en · ADJ

Etymology

From dither + -y.

Meanings

1. Unable to think straight; tending to dither.
2. Constantly moving about
3. Characterized by dithering.
   • It has been a dithery decade for nuclear policy. After the 2011 disaster at the Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan, several countries began shuttering their reactors and tearing up plans for new ones. December 15 2022, Samanth Subramanian, “Dismantling Sellafield: the epic task of shutting down a nuclear site”, in The Guardian:

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