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Hesitancy

The act of hesitating or pausing to consider slowness in deciding vacillation also the manner of one who hesitates...

Hesitant

Not prompt in deciding or acting hesitating...

Hesitate

To utter with hesitation or to intimate by a reluctant manner...

Hesitation

The act of hesitating suspension of opinion or action doubt vacillation...

Hesitative

Showing or characterized by hesitation...

Boggle

To stop or hesitate as if suddenly frightened or in doubt or impeded by unforeseen difficulties to take alarm to exhibit hesitancy and indecision...

Negligence per se, conduct, whether of action or omission, which may be declared and treated as negligence without any argument or proof as to the particular surrounding circumstances, either because it is in violation of a statute or valid municipal ordinance, or because it is so palpably opposed to the dictates of common prudence that it can be said without hesitation or doubt that no careful person would have been guilty of it. As a general rule, the violation of a public duty, enjoined by law for the protection of person or property, so constitutes, Black's Law Dictionary; See also State of Haryana v. Santra, (2000) 5 SCC 182.Negligence per se is defined as 'Conduct, whether of action or omission, which may be declared and treated as negligence without any argument or proof as to be particular surrounding circumstances, either because it is in violation of a statute or valid municipal ordinance, or because it is so palpably opposed to the dictates of common prudence that it can be ...

Doubt

To waver in opinion or judgment to be in uncertainty as to belief respecting anything to hesitate in belief to be undecided as to the truth of the negative or the affirmative proposition to b e undetermined...

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