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wasting time

VERB

idle away time

Synonyms

WEAK

burn daylight dally dawdle delay dillydally fiddle about fritter away time goof off kill time linger loiter lollygag lose time pass the time piddle procrastinate shilly-shally take one's own sweet time take one's time tarry while away the time

Example Sentences

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Then he burned almost two minutes with a song-and-dance number about not wasting time.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 2026

She’s over wasting time plucking chin hairs, searching for brain fog-induced lost reading glasses and — most of all — withholding her opinions so as not to offend others.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 20, 2026

Filibustering means deliberately wasting time during a debate, for example by making overly long speeches or raising unnecessary procedural points, so a bill is "talked out" and cannot make progress within the time allowed.

From BBC • Nov. 14, 2025

An umpire can, after an initial warning, award five penalty runs to an opposition if one team are deemed to be wasting time.

From BBC • Jul. 16, 2025

For a moment, we stood wasting time, staring at each other.

From "Kindred" by Octavia Butler