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  • noundawdling
  • nounlove affair

synonyms for dalliance

  • delay
  • idling
  • loafing
  • playing
  • poking
  • procrastination
  • toying
  • trifling
  • dabbling
  • delaying
  • dilly-dallying
  • frittering
  • frivoling
  • loitering
  • procrastinating
  • fling
  • affair
  • relationship
  • seduction
  • toying
  • a little on the side
  • amorous play
  • carrying-on
  • fooling around
  • frolicking
  • hanky-panky
  • messing around
  • working late at office
On this page you'll find 44 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to dalliance, such as: delay, idling, loafing, playing, poking, and procrastination.

antonyms for dalliance

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  • hastening
  • hurrying
  • push
  • rush
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How to use dalliance in a sentence

I have a new baseline threshold for pepper pain, forever skewed by my dalliance with the Reaper.
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The most famous song is “Motion Sickness,” which ossifies her real-life dalliance with Ryan Adams.
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That dalliance culminated at a local 5K, where I ran a relatively impressive race.
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Nearly four years after media’s first doomed dalliance with the blockchain, which was supposed to remedy some of ad tech’s transparency problems and fight fraud, the NFT mania was hard to take seriously.
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To the naked eye, it looks like media companies’ dalliances with NFTs have come to an end.
‘MORE DYNAMIC, LOYALTY DRIVEN COMMUNITIES:’ WHAT COMES NEXT FOR PUBLISHERS ON THE BLOCKCHAINKAYLEIGH BARBERAUGUST 24, 2021DIGIDAY
Portia develops a passion for Eddie, whose dalliance with her she mistakes for love — with devastating consequences all around.
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Her assailant is her bandmate and erstwhile lover Golden Boy, a saxophone player who is made jealous by her dalliance with No Man.
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It was nothing to do with Michael Fane; it was solely his own determination to put an end to his unprofitable dalliance.
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The primrose path of dalliance did not lead them to peace, and the pursuit of variety in love brought them only monotony.
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It is not with gentle hands, not with the dalliance of effeminate fingers, that such a task is done.
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WORDS RELATED TO DALLIANCE

  • dalliance
  • dallying
  • flirting
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