hesitate
hesitancy
She hesitatingly agreed to take on the assignment even though she had a lot of other work to do.
I went slowly and hesitatingly up the steps to the front door and rang the bell.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Hesitating
backward
broken English
dilly-dally
dither
ditherer
gun-shy
halting
haltingly
hang
hang back
have a foot in both campsidiom
hem and hawidiom
hesitancy
hesitant
hesitantly
hesitate
hum
pussyfoot
shilly-shally
sit on the fenceidiom