Thesaurus / dawdle
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Weyman’s cloak-and-rapier swashbuckler is long — over 400 pages in my edition — but its action never dawdles.
FLASHING BLADES, SECRET PASSAGES, MISTAKEN IDENTITIES: ‘A GENTLEMAN OF FRANCE’ IS A CLASSIC ADVENTURE TALEMICHAEL DIRDASEPTEMBER 1, 2021WASHINGTON POSTMany Republicans, meanwhile, seem perfectly open to dawdling on the legislation despite the critical support it would provide to many people currently in need.
SENATE REPUBLICANS ARE TRYING TO DRAG OUT THE STIMULUS PROCESS IN THE MIDDLE OF A NATIONAL EMERGENCYLI ZHOUMARCH 5, 2021VOXWhy should they not dawdle at their labor sitting upon the fence in endless colloquy while the harvest rots upon the stalk?
THE UNSOLVED RIDDLE OF SOCIAL JUSTICESTEPHEN LEACOCKAfter a big fit of work, I can dawdle against any one; then I get another fit of work—it's like appetite.
VILLA RUBEIN AND OTHER STORIESJOHN GALSWORTHYYou've no idea how beastly it is to dawdle about in a crowd of people, and then at the end go back to another term of school.
SINISTER STREET, VOL. 1COMPTON MACKENZIETell your mother, and that poor dawdle there, your sister, that they 'd be thankful they'd have followed my advice.
ROLAND CASHELCHARLES JAMES LEVERThey watched him as he passed up the pathway, with a stride and a swing so different from his ordinary listless dawdle.
COLONIAL BORNG. FIRTH SCOTTDon't dawdle round doin' nuthin' but stuffin' yerself to kill.
THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY, VOLUME 14, NO. 85, NOVEMBER, 1864VARIOUSShe had studied not only with a will, but an eager interest in so many things that she wondered how girls could dawdle along.
HELEN GRANT'S SCHOOLDAYSAMANDA M. DOUGLASAs things are, I say to you, as I often say to myself: Don't dawdle; don't scramble.
ATLANTIC CLASSICSVARIOUSWORDS RELATED TO DAWDLE
- adjourning
- being dilatory
- cooling
- dallying
- dawdling
- deferring
- dragging
- dragging one's feet
- giving the run around
- goldbricking
- hanging fire
- hesitating
- holding off
- lagging
- letting slide
- lingering
- loitering
- pausing
- playing a waiting game
- playing for time
- poking
- postponing
- prolonging
- protracting
- retarding
- shilly-shallying
- stalling
- staying
- suspending
- tarrying
- temporizing
- waiting
- arrest
- back off
- baffle
- balk
- bog
- bog down
- brake
- bring to screeching halt
- check
- choke
- choke off
- clog
- close off
- crimp
- dawdle
- decelerate
- decrease
- defer
- delay
- detain
- down
- encumber
- falter
- fetter
- flag
- hamper
- handicap
- hang up
- hesitate
- hold back
- hold up
- impede
- lessen
- let up
- loaf
- loiter
- mire
- poke
- postpone
- reduce
- retardate
- set back
- shut down
- shut off
- slacken
- slow down
- slow up
- stall
- take down
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