behindhand
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Considering that this Fantaisie' was ordered, and paid for, and eaten more than a year ago, I realize that I am behindhand with it.
From Time Magazine Archive
It's just because I have been talking so long that I am behindhand.
From San-Cravate; or, The Messengers; Little Streams by Charles Paul de Kock
We hear that Hood was forever behindhand with his promises to publishers; no wonder!
From Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. by Margaret Fuller
I'm afraid I ought not to have let him do that, but we're rather behindhand tonight.
From The War-Workers by E.M. Delafield
As regards works of a scientific character, the Magyars until recently were confessedly behindhand as compared with many other European nations.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 8 "Hudson River" to "Hurstmonceaux" by Various
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