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dawdling



ADJECTIVE
hesitating
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ADJECTIVE
trailing
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Dawdling on expanding the Soo Locks hurts the competitiveness of the Midwest.

From Washington Times • Sep. 14, 2015

Dawdling gallerygoers, who could scarcely tell when night fell as the concealed lights filled the rooms with an almost perfect synthetic daylight, were tickled with everything.

From Time Magazine Archive

Dawdling around the docks is Trintignant, who, thanks to his Fascist father's political connections, has dodged the draft.

From Time Magazine Archive

Dawdling Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King knew about them,* but did not act.

From Time Magazine Archive

Dawdling and languid, braced up and informed by no earnestness of purpose, and never having had enthusiasm enough to set themselves fairly alight, they do no good and they come to nothing.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John by Maclaren, Alexander




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