Synonyms of haltingly

haltingly

adverb

as in hesitantly

Related Words

• hesitantly
• hesitatingly
• tentatively
• falteringly
• slowly
• circumspectly
• designedly
• leisurely
• deliberately
• calculatingly
• studiedly

Dissimilar Words

• hurriedly
• hastily
• precipitously
• rashly
• precipitately
• cursorily
• headlong
• recklessly
• impatiently
• impulsively
• impetuously
• thoughtlessly
• automatically
• headfirst
• haphazardly
• hotfoot
• headily
• pell-mell
• hotheadedly
• glancingly

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of haltingly

In Vietnamese director Lê Bảo’s new film, an extended family confronts various rifts and estrangements in its ranks; years of silence must give way, slowly and haltingly, to communication. — Guy Lodge, Variety, 10 Aug. 2026

Law-enforcement officials in Minnesota are—albeit haltingly—beginning to move forward with investigations and prosecutions on their own. — Quinta Jurecic, The Atlantic, 6 July 2026

Root listens intently and then responds, initially haltingly. — James Wallace, New York Times, 22 May 2026

The game started to percolate here, but only haltingly. — Kansas City Star, 15 Feb. 2026

In O’Sullivan’s story these two come together, however haltingly at first, out of necessity for both just to go on and find a semblance of their lives without Callie. — Pete Hammond, Deadline, 13 Feb. 2026

Fiona’s neighbors get their own thin plots, broadening but not deepening the world of a show that moves haltingly towards a cliffhanger in its scant, 7-episode first season and so presumably means to continue. — Judy Berman, Time, 4 Dec. 2025

That test soon divides matter, even for a far from sensitive ear, into what reads well & what reads tamely, haltingly, jerkily, lopsidedly, top-heavily, or otherwise badly. — Ben Yagoda, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025

As the world lost its CO2 blanket over this age of mammals, though, and the world chilled, grasslands, having invented a new form of photosynthesis adapted to this drier, lower-CO2 world, haltingly but inexorably took over much of the Earth. — Peter Brannen, Big Think, 28 Aug. 2025