behindhand

Example Sentences

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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

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 Fuller, Margaret

Not to be behindhand with you in your frumps, I give you back your purse of gold: Take you that—in imagination.

From Dryden's Works Vol. 3 (of 18) Sir Martin Mar-All; The Tempest; An Evening's Love; Tyrannic Love by Dryden, John

Suppose a crew are backward as oarsmen and also behindhand in condition.

From Boating by Woodgate, W. B.

England did not surrender the refugees, and why should Belgium be behindhand in magnanimity?

From Victor Hugo: His Life and Works by Smith, G. Barnett