halting

adj

1. Prone to pauses or breaks; hesitant; broken.

   “his halting speech”

   “her halting steps”

   “Him we enlisted at Para, on the recommendation of the steamship company, on whose vessels he had learned to speak a halting English.”

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of halt

noun

1. The action of one who halts; a stopping or hesitancy.

   “But alas ! alas ! the faintings, the haltings, the back-slidings of Christians, are enough to make us tremble while we rejoice in the hope set before us.”