stickling (?.)
- bashful
- bashfulness
- boggle
- boggling
- cautious
- compunction
- demur
- demurral
- demurring
- diffidence
- diffident
- falter
- faltering
- hesitance
- hesitancy
- hesitant
- hesitating
- hesitation
- jibbing
- modest
- modesty
- objection
- pause
- protest
- qualm
- qualm of conscience
- qualmish
- qualmishness
- recoil
- scruple
- scrupling
- scrupulosity
- scrupulous
- scrupulousness
- shilly-shallying
- shrinking
- shy
- shyness
- squeamish
- sticking
- straining
- tentative
- timid