[ UK /dˈɪlətəɹˌi/ ]
[ US /ˈdɪɫəˌtɔɹi/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. wasting time
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How To Use dilatory In A Sentence

  • Bishops, like most people, are often dilatory and strongly disposed toward avoiding controversy.
  • With a view of allowing Jake time to "cover his tracks" he resorted to "dilatory" measures. Before the War, and After the Union; An Autobiography
  • Gingrich branded the amendment strategy "dilatory" about the nicest thing he said about Democrats. Gingrich Goes Ballistic
  • There is a questionable sort of beginning, which might be called dilatory, that consists in carrying the literary aspect of the essential facts to the extreme, and making them occupy a deal more valuable space than is rightly theirs. Short Story Writing A Practical Treatise on the Art of The Short Story
  • Even moderate drinking can have an immediate vasodilatory effect, increasing blood flow to the skin. Times, Sunday Times
  • And, while the process must be thorough, it can't be dilatory.
  • The presence of large number of candidates makes descriptive answering method onerous and dilatory.
  • It's this dilatory, not-at-all thrusting progress that always makes me wonder where passengers on the North London Line are actually going.
  • Nor can we rely on escalatory steps such as economic sanctions to pressure it as it employs dilatory and diversionary tactics to complete its final solution.
  • Democrats accused them of using "dilatory" tactics, but the Bushmen plodded on. Al At The Brink
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