Thesaurus / dawdles
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synonyms for dawdles
- laze
- loiter
- mosey
- procrastinate
- saunter
- amble
- dally
- dilly-dally
- drag
- idle
- lag
- loaf
- loll
- lounge
- poke
- stay
- stroll
- tarry
- toddle
- trifle
- wait
- 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
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Of what use is a man who dawdles away his time on a fiddle; of what benefit is he to mankind?
THE FIFTH STRING JOHN PHILIP SOUSAHe lingers and dawdles through his round of hours as though it joyed him to be sluggish.
DOCTOR CLAUDIUS, A TRUE STORYF. MARION CRAWFORDOwd Dawdles had nivver had sich a job in his life, it tuk him aboon an haar, an' when he coom back it wor droppin dark.
YORKSHER PUDDIN'JOHN HARTLEYBut Dawdles wor as gooid as his word, an' long befoor it wor done he declared it wor th' cheapest mait he ivver bowt.
YORKSHER PUDDIN'JOHN HARTLEYHe must put the screw on Henslowe, and if Henslowe dawdles, why we shall just drain and repair and sink for a well, ourselves.
ROBERT ELSMEREMRS. HUMPHRY WARDIf he should ever slip up, it might well be put down as an insult, because he never forgets or dawdles.
HARVARD STORIESWALDRON KINTZING POSTHe must put the screw on Henslowe, and if Henslowe dawdles, why we shall just drain and repair and sink for a well ourselves.
ROBERT ELSMEREMRS. HUMPHRY WARDReenawlee; a slow-going fellow who dawdles and delays and hesitates about things.
ENGLISH AS WE SPEAK IT IN IRELANDP. W. JOYCEIt is the adolescent who loafs and dawdles on street corners.
TRAMPING ON LIFEHARRY KEMPHe goes down into the street, and dawdles an hour or so a day at his broker's.
AN AMBITIOUS WOMANEDGAR FAWCETT