anachronism, anticipation, earliness, high time, last minute, lateness, misdate, mistiming, postdating, prolepsis, unpreparedness, unreadiness
Definitionn. the quality or habit of not adhering to a correct or usual or expected time
Last update: August 14, 2015
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"Which explains, sire, the tardiness of my submission." [Please select]
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Although Herbert had laughed at their tardiness, he was the most exhausted and the first one to wish to rest. [Please select]
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Her heart smote her for the tardiness of her reparation; but stronger than this was her fear of striking and missing fire. [Please select]
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The horses usually obeyed with tardiness and hesitation, and very often manifested nervousness and uncertainty. [Please select]
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Page, who had taken advantage of Harriet's tardiness to read the obituary column in the morning paper, dropped it. [Please select]
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It was flowing water, yet the proof was there of tardiness. [Please select]
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Damn Lee for his tardiness and folly, which forces man and beast to journey in such cold. [Please select]
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Anderson expressed surprise at Lenore's tardiness, and said she had been called twice. [Please select]
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Little by little, with dispiriting tardiness, day escapes from the sky into the slender framework of the black clouds. [Please select]
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The little puckery lines came into her smooth forehead when he apologized for his tardiness by explaining that he had not gone to bed until one o'clock.' [Please select]
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Julie greeted him, and he excused himself on the ground of a dinner which had begun just an hour late, owing to the tardiness of a cabinet minister. [Please select]
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