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Definition of the day : « dilatory »

  • adj procrastinating
Example sentences :
  • The dilatory sportsman robs the pack of finding and himself of profit.
  • Extract from : « The Sportsman » by Xenophon
  • The dilatory habits of a decade were not so readily unlearned.
  • Extract from : « Union and Democracy » by Allen Johnson
  • I had received more than a dilatory donkey on the road to the fair!
  • Extract from : « The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 28, April 1893 » by Various
  • In no other way can his dilatory proceedings be accounted for.
  • Extract from : « The Campaign of Trenton 1776-77 » by Samuel Adams Drake
  • The dilatory one was old Kelly; and him Forsythe shot through the heart.
  • Extract from : « The Wreck of the Titan » by Morgan Robertson
  • I never had such a dilatory damsel to make my first tent breakfast!
  • Extract from : « Betty Leicester » by Sarah Orne Jewett
  • General Sheridan's method of operation could hardly be held as dilatory.
  • Extract from : « The County Regiment » by Dudley Landon Vaill
  • He had been dilatory but now he intended to get down to business.
  • Extract from : « The Lady Doc » by Caroline Lockhart
  • It is in reality a most exhausting, dilatory, and humiliating exercise.
  • Extract from : « Scally » by Ian Hay
  • Whoever was dilatory, whoever was slow, the Gibeonites dared not be.
  • Extract from : « The Astronomy of the Bible » by E. Walter Maunder