tardiness
Example Sentences
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She was late so often for school that administrators said she might have to repeat some classes and asked for a doctor’s note to explain the tardiness.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 20, 2025
Others riffed on her well-known history of tardiness.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 8, 2025
In a lawsuit filed in New York, they claimed her tardiness impacted their sleep and their ability to "get up early to go to work" the next day.
From BBC • Dec. 20, 2024
The judge appeared to be stunned — not by Mr. Harris’s casual tardiness, but rather by the irony of his actions given the charge Mr. Harris was facing.
From New York Times • May 29, 2024
It might have been that my tardiness in learning to sense white people as “white” people came from the fact that many of my relatives were “white”-looking people.
From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright
Vocabulary lists containing tardiness
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