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The tedious, dilatory time and money-wasting “come later on” procedure of times gone by no longer obtains.
THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDSJOHN FOREMANBut the policy of Austria was, at that time, strangely dilatory and irresolute.
THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND FROM THE ACCESSION OF JAMES II.THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAYThe Greek Government, British retaliation which was all but bankrupt, was dilatory in settling these claims.
A HISTORY OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY, YEAR BY YEAREDWIN EMERSONAn early dinner was eaten, and the dishes washed with an alacrity in agreeable contrast to the dilatory methods of the morning.
PEGGY RAYMOND'S VACATIONHARRIET L. (HARRIET LUMMIS) SMITHHe felt like explaining to them that he had not just arrived, and that he really was not so foolish or so dilatory as he looked.
WHAT WILL PEOPLE SAY?RUPERT HUGHESThe want of proper arrangement and sufficient hands made this a most dilatory and tedious operation.
LANDS OF THE SLAVE AND THE FREEHENRY A. MURRAYSeemingly a dilatory and inadequate reward for such a service.
JOHN ELIOT'S FIRST INDIAN TEACHER AND INTERPRETER COCKENOE-DE-LONG ISLAND AND THE STORY OF HIS CAREER FROM THE EARLY RECORDSWILLIAM WALLACE TOOKERTo varnish a rod in December proves that one possesses either a dilatory or a childishly anticipatory mind.
FISHING WITH A WORMBLISS PERRYIf the Reformed allowed themselves to be cheated by these dilatory measures, it was all over.
HISTORY OF THE GREAT REFORMATION, VOLUME IVJ. H. MERLE D'AUBIGNPerhaps the dilatory conduct of that House formerly, it is now thought, can be atoned for by hurry and precipitation.
PRIVATE PAPERS OF WILLIAM WILBERFORCEWILLIAM WILBERFORCEWORDS RELATED TO DILATORY
- apathetic
- asleep on the job
- careless
- comatose
- dallying
- dilatory
- drowsy
- dull
- flagging
- idle
- inattentive
- indifferent
- indolent
- inert
- lackadaisical
- laggard
- lagging
- languid
- languorous
- lethargic
- lifeless
- loafing
- neglectful
- out of it
- passive
- procrastinating
- remiss
- shiftless
- slack
- sleepy
- slothful
- slow
- slow-moving
- snoozy
- somnolent
- supine
- tardy
- tired
- torpid
- trifling
- unconcerned
- unenergetic
- unindustrious
- unpersevering
- unready
- weary
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