Showing Results for "dawdled"

dawdled

VERB

delay; waste time

Synonyms

STRONGEST

laze loiter mosey procrastinate saunter

STRONG

amble dally dilly-dally drag idle lag loaf loll lounge poke stay stroll tarry toddle trifle wait

WEAK

bum around diddle-daddle fool around fritter away get no place fast goof off hang around hang out lazy put off scrounge around shlep along sit around sit on one's butt warm a chair

Antonyms

STRONG

do go run rush

WEAK

forward hasten hurry push speed

Example Sentences

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On many of the tombstones of those who have failed in life could be read between the lines: "He Dawdled," "Behind Time," "Procrastination," "Listlessness," "Shiftlessness," "Nervelessness," "Always Behind."

From Pushing to the Front by Marden, Orison Swett

Dawdled over in a novel again of three hundred pages, it loses appeal to the sympathy and constantly starts fresh difficulties for the understanding.

From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century by Saintsbury, George