dilly-dallying
Example Sentences
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Eventually, even the film itself seems over all of the dilly-dallying.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 12, 2026
They’ve fallen into a tie for sixth place alongside Washington State after losing the ultimate letdown game against Cal, which proves more irritating than the dilly-dallying UC regents.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 22, 2022
There’s no Hamlet-like dilly-dallying over ontological riddles, no Othellian agonies over the symbolic significance of a missing handkerchief.
From Slate ● Dec. 4, 2015
He asked military leaders to stop "dilly-dallying" and not make it "a matter of ego and send Malala somewhere where she can be treated better."
From New York Times ● Oct. 14, 2012
And I have to save it, and what on earth am I doing, dilly-dallying here?
From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill
