Antonyms for dawdles

Grammar : Verb

Spell : dawd-l

Phonetic Transcription : ˈdɔd l

Definition of dawdles

Origin : 1650s, perhaps a variant of daddle "to walk unsteadily." Perhaps influenced by daw, because the bird was regarded as sluggish and silly. Not in general use until c.1775. Related: Dawdled; dawdling.

verb delay; waste time

Example sentences :

He goes down into the street, and dawdles an hour or so a day at his broker's.
Extract from : « An Ambitious Woman » by Edgar Fawcett

It is the adolescent who loafs and dawdles on street corners.
Extract from : « Tramping on Life » by Harry Kemp

Reenawlee; a slow-going fellow who dawdles and delays and hesitates about things.
Extract from : « English As We Speak It in Ireland » by P. W. Joyce

He must put the screw on Henslowe, and if Henslowe dawdles, why we shall just drain and repair and sink for a well ourselves.
Extract from : « Robert Elsmere » by Mrs. Humphry Ward

If he should ever slip up, it might well be put down as an insult, because he never forgets or dawdles.
Extract from : « Harvard Stories » by Waldron Kintzing Post

He lingers and dawdles through his round of hours as though it joyed him to be sluggish.
Extract from : « Doctor Claudius, A True Story » by F. Marion Crawford

He must put the screw on Henslowe, and if Henslowe dawdles, why we shall just drain and repair and sink for a well, ourselves.
Extract from : « Robert Elsmere » by Mrs. Humphry Ward

Of what use is a man who dawdles away his time on a fiddle; of what benefit is he to mankind?
Extract from : « The Fifth String » by John Philip Sousa

He doesn't read, and he doesn't study; he just dawdles around, and calls on the girls, and talks with them by the hour.
Extract from : « Gabriel Tolliver » by Joel Chandler Harris

But Dawdles wor as gooid as his word, an' long befoor it wor done he declared it wor th' cheapest mait he ivver bowt.
Extract from : « Yorksher Puddin' » by John Hartley

Synonyms for dawdles

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