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dilly-dallying

noun as in dalliance

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noun as in idleness

noun as in inactivity

noun as in inertness

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Here we are frightened at names, dilly-dallying and quarreling over idle words, when a tremendous crisis calls for acts.

But its no use dilly-dallying, and Shultz may as well understand it.

The fates were resolved that there should be no dilly-dallying by the principals chosen for this drama that they had staged.

It takes "thirty years" of dilly-dallying before Christian scholars will admit that the persecuted heretic was in the right.

It should go to work and build, right now and without any dilly-dallying or delay, the Calaveras Reservoir.

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