be dilatory

Example Sentences

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“I would like to succeed in negotiating something where we get full and fair hearings – we’re not trying to be dilatory – and hear what these nominees have to say,” Schumer said.

From The Guardian • Jan. 5, 2017

Whether the cause is the court's work load or the Justices' inclination to be dilatory, this year has been no different.

From Time Magazine Archive

Bombay turned out to be honest and trusty, but slightly disposed to be dilatory.

From How I Found Livingstone; travels, adventures, and discoveres in Central Africa, including an account of four months' residence with Dr. Livingstone, by Henry M. Stanley by Stanley, Henry M. (Henry Morton)

He hoped the valet would be dilatory in executing these commands.

From Buried Alive: a Tale of These Days by Bennett, Arnold

Then the parsons would be dilatory and troublesome and expensive, and a good many people were apt to think that they could do very well without ceremonies.

From John Caldigate by Trollope, Anthony