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balking

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"Refusing to proceed"

7 letters · collected on this word page

7 lettersPart of speech adjectiveSorted abgiklnStarts with BEnds with G1 clues
1B2A3L4K5I6N7G

Definitions

  1. refusing to proceed, act or work

Used in a sentence

  • This supernatural world is the world of fulfilled desire, the world where the balkings, the trials and tribulations, the sorrows and the sins are no more, and where life is as the personality would have it […]
  • For these, the ground chosen was especially hard and slippery, and in bad condition; and to add to this, the wind, which blew the lath about, was very balking to the competitors.
  • Here was a very balking answer, but in spite of it, Harold could not help believing that Esther was very far from objecting to the sort of incense he had been offering just then.

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