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dawdling

[ UK /dˈɔːdlɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ˈdɔdɫɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
  1. the deliberate act of delaying and playing instead of working

How To Use dawdling In A Sentence

  • Rail chiefs say the whistle is so loud it makes passengers hurry onto trains rather than dawdling along the platform - and makes trains stick to timetables.
  • For example, when we are trying to go somewhere I sometimes feel that Simon is dawdling and delaying.
  • No one admires Emerson's methodology more than I, but in my opinion we have been dawdling over this mastaba longer than we ought. HE SHALL THUNDER IN THE SKY
  • Twenty-five at the time, he had been dawdling while taking a degree in theology.
  • No one admires Emerson's methodology more than I, but in my opinion we have been dawdling over this mastaba longer than we ought. HE SHALL THUNDER IN THE SKY
  • They know dawdling only tries the government's patience.
  • Rail chiefs say the whistle is so loud it makes passengers hurry onto trains rather than dawdling along the platform - and makes trains stick to timetables.
  • Society divides naturally into classes, diletantism and pococurantism dawdling luxuriously here, labor at hand-grip with Destiny there. The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 10
  • I know you couldn't have like the word "dawdling" - but there was no such hesitation the 1st time around for the 21,000 troops (which was a 40% increase, then) and now I believe that the delay was purely a PR stunt, to make it seem like he's agonizing (as much as that's possible, from his 2 weeks at Cape Cod to being in a tuxedo, 2-3x a week) ... Room Eight
  • He fell into newspapering by dawdling over greasy saucisson and a piece of bread. THE SHIPPING NEWS
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