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synonyms for most loitering

  • easy
  • gradual
  • heavy
  • lackadaisical
  • leisurely
  • lethargic
  • moderate
  • passive
  • quiet
  • reluctant
  • sluggish
  • stagnant
  • crawling
  • creeping
  • dawdling
  • delaying
  • deliberate
  • disinclined
  • idle
  • lagging
  • loitering
  • measured
  • plodding
  • postponing
  • procrastinating
  • slack
  • apathetic
  • bit-by-bit
  • dilatory
  • dreamy
  • drowsy
  • imperceptible
  • inactive
  • indolent
  • inert
  • laggard
  • leaden
  • listless
  • negligent
  • phlegmatic
  • ponderous
  • remiss
  • sleepy
  • slothful
  • slow-moving
  • snaillike
  • supine
  • tardy
  • torpid
  • tortoiselike

antonyms for most loitering

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  • active
  • complex
  • complicated
  • energetic
  • enthusiastic
  • intricate
  • lively
  • moving
  • busy
  • cognizant
  • fast
  • hurried
  • intelligent
  • on time
  • quick
  • rapid
  • ready
  • smart
  • waiting
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        How to use most loitering in a sentence

        They were slowing down at a station and there were no less than three picturesque looking young fellows loitering about the place.
        THE OUTDOOR GIRLS IN THE SADDLELAURA LEE HOPE
        He had been down into the bottom-most pit of hell, and the sights that he had seen there had withered him up.
        LOVE'S PILGRIMAGEUPTON SINCLAIR
        Then off would roam Sally, perhaps loitering around fair Ingleside, or returning to her beloved pine woods and leafy oak-tree.
        MAID SALLYHARRIET A. CHEEVER
        She tried to drop behind; but the team had an infinite capacity for loitering.
        EARTH'S ENIGMASCHARLES G. D. ROBERTS
        He was a bird of affairs; he had too much on his mind for loitering.
        IN NESTING TIMEOLIVE THORNE MILLER
        She questioned a peasant who was loitering near the drawbridge.
        A GERMAN POMPADOURMARIE HAY
        I do not know of a more insidious temptation to buy what you do not need than loitering along the quais of the Rive Gauche.
        PARIS VISTASHELEN DAVENPORT GIBBONS
        The top-most bud waits only through the twelve hours of a single day to open.
        THE COLLEGE, THE MARKET, AND THE COURTCAROLINE H. DALL
        I left the village a couple of hours ago; rather loitering, as I came along, to enjoy the river scenery.
        BARRINGTONCHARLES JAMES LEVER
        Her father had no son living, therefore she was an only child, and the most-sought-after of any maiden in that band.
        RED HUNTERS AND THE ANIMAL PEOPLECHARLES A. EASTMAN
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        OCTOBER 26, 1985
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