The word "dither" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is typically used as a verb to mean being in a state of confusion or indecisiveness about what to do next. For example, "The team was in a state of dither, unsure of how to proceed with the project."
There is only one course of action for David Cameron: he should end the dither and delay and kick this man out of the party.
As Europe has learnt so often and so painfully in the past, to cave in to such behaviour serves only to encourage it.A similar failure to communicate and tendency to dither under pressure have marked the attitudes of Europe's politicians to the weakness of their single currency, the euro.
Yet these stopgaps allowed Mr Morsi's government to dither, over enacting economic reforms needed to unlock still bigger flows of aid and investment, such as a long-proffered $4.8 billion IMF loan.The long-delayed rationalisation of ruinous energy subsidies was particularly aggravating.
Brain workers dither for ages but then are struck by a flash of insight or a burst of creativity.
NOT for the first time, the European Union is giving the impression of dither and discussion while the flames of conflict in the Balkans threaten to blaze out of control.
But al-Sunnah's price of five cabinet posts as well as seats in Somalia's defunct parliament may weaken what is already a pathetically feeble government.The Shabab is tightening its grip in the areas it controls, as its opponents dither.
Many farmers fear that the government knows the disease is uncontrollable, prefers not to spend money on a losing battle, and will leave them instead to fend for themselves.Yet in a farming state like Arkansas, which grew nearly $800m worth of soyabeans last year, farmers cannot afford to dither while the USDA decides.
The government meanwhile continues to dither over what to do about frozen savings and the ghostly banking system.
Will Mr Kerry continue to press for action on Iran's nuclear build-up, or will he dither while France and Germany appease the mullahs?
As the colonel's forces advanced and the international community appeared to dither, many Libyans who had thrown in their lot with the rebels began to waver.
And perhaps the perverse incentives with a corrupt ally that's too important to lose are the same as those with a bank that's too big to fail ultimately, we're going to have to take the write-down; the longer we dither, the more we lose.(Photo credit: AFP).
