Sentence example with the word 'dilatory'

dilatory

apathetic, dallying, doless, ergophobic, indolent, leisurely, negligent, procrastinatory, shiftless, slow to, unhasty

Definition adj. wasting time

Last update: September 28, 2015

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The public has been dilatory in condemning the police action against protesters.   [Please select]

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It would be in character from him to employ dilatory tactics like Assad.   [Please select]

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Of course my dilatory way of replying to all letters makes it far worse.   [Please select]

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I am not to blame that the Minister is vacillating, a coward, dense, dilatory, and has all bad qualities.   [Please select]

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Another person who added a few points to Oldbuck was "Sandy Gordon," author of the "Itinerarium Septentrionale" (1726), the very folio which Monkbarns carried in the dilatory coach to Queensferry.   [Please select]

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The messenger had been even more [v]dilatory than he was prepared to expect.   [Please select]

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The military operations of the years 1641, 1642 and 1643 were dilatory and featureless.   [Please select]

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"Look sharp now, lads," said Cameron, impatiently, to several dilatory members of the band.   [Please select]

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He was purposely dilatory, and was often the last one to finish.   [Please select]

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