VERB
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postpone doing what one should be doing
He did not want to write the letter and procrastinated for days
How To Use dilly-dally In A Sentence
- How should we deal with judges who sleep on the bench, dilly-dally over judgments or commit crimes?
- While they're dilly-dallying, my house is falling apart.
- The conversations between the bird beings sound as ‘bird brained’ as the rather mindless verbal dilly-dallying of the humans.
- I'm not going to be dilly-dallying around and dancing around the issues.
- Let's not dilly-dally, let's get straight on into the funny, shall we? Friday Pix
- Although perhaps it is more important for a poet to be "companionable" than to dilly-dally around so much with words and stuff, more important to offer "something born of blood and emotion" (as if Stevens's poems don't contain emotion -- has Wiman read "The Death of a Soldier"?) than to write skillful and provocative poems. Poetry
- Bhatti said that he had requested additional security but that law enforcement authorities were "dilly-dallying. Shahbaz Bhatti, Pakistan's sole Christian minister, is assassinated in Islamabad
- It's just as important not to dilly-dally while you get it down, too.
- Breakfast is at seven-thirty, so there is little time to dilly-dally over make-up and hair. WEB OF DREAMS
- Let's not dilly-dally, let's get straight on into the funny, shall we? Friday Pix