| のろのろ | Too slow – like the people driving in front of you. |
| だらだら | (literally, the sound of dripping) – people who work at a slow pace, deliberately going slow out of laziness, giving you just a dribble of effort. |
| ためらう | To be hesitant, to have second thoughts ためらいもなくxxx (I will do xxx without hesitation!) |
| しぶしぶ | Reluctantly |
| おずおず | Timidly, apprehensively. Usually we’d use おそるおそる instead. If おずおず is used at all, it’s used by a parent scolding a scaredy-cat kid:おずおずするな!早くゴキブリを取れ! |
| おそるおそる | Timidly, apprehensively. (The bird approached my hand with the birdseed in my palm.) |