tardiness

How To Use tardiness In A Sentence

• Here are the swiftness of the rapid race, and the march of slow-paced majesty, exhibited by the same poet in the same sequence of syllables, except that the exact prosodist will find the line of swiftness by one time longer than that of tardiness. Lives of the English Poets: Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Pope
• The objective is to determine the optimal due-date and schedule simultaneously to minimize the completion time, earliness and tardiness penalties.
• Here are the swiftness of the rapid race, and the march of slow-paced majesty, exhibited by the same poet in the same sequence of syllables, except that the exact prosodist will find the line of _swiftness_ by one time longer than that of _tardiness_. The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II
• Punctuality may not assure success but tardiness guarantees failure.
• I want to apologize for my tardiness.
• She never flinched from taking me to task for tardiness and other ill-disciplined behaviour, albeit in the most tactful and casual manner, although I know that this was done out of a sense of concern.
• Padilla, tiring of this tardiness, threatened to adjourn at 10: 15 if there was no quorum.
• Tardiness, once a chronic problem, has abated.Sentencedict
• MORE WMATA MEMBERS, PLEASE -- The Obama administration's tardiness in naming two federal members to the Metro board of directors "has raised concerns that the transit agency lacks the benefit of added oversight as it selects a new general manager and implements major safety improvements," Ann Scott Tyson writes in today's Post. DeMorning DeBonis: Oct. 26, 2010
• I'm sure you have a reasonable explanation for your tardiness.