dawdler

Example Sentences

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He was also a daydreamer and dawdler, which brought complaints from his teachers.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 27, 2017

I had to check out by 11 a.m., and the possibility of a dawdler fee pushed me out of bed.

From Washington Post • Sep. 27, 2016

In the 2012 Australian Open men’s final, Rafael Nadal, a notorious dawdler, and Novak Djokovic routinely took 30 to 35 seconds between points, albeit on a hot, humid day.

From New York Times • Aug. 24, 2014

Clearly, Guan and his partners needed to hustle up -- and Paramor, the man with the stopwatch, decided Guan was the chief dawdler.

From Golf Digest • Apr. 12, 2013

This condition the President remedied by executive action, at the same time seeing to it that the shirk and the dawdler received no mercy.

From Theodore Roosevelt and His Times by Howland, Harold