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Grammar : Verb
Spell : proh-kras-tuh-neyt, pruh-
Phonetic Transcription : proʊˈkræs təˌneɪt, prə-

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Définition of procrastinating

Origin :
  • 1580s, a back formation from procrastination or else from Latin procrastinatus, past participle of procrastinare "to put off till tomorrow; defer, delay" (see procrastination). Related: Procrastinated; procrastinating. Earlier verb was procrastine (1540s), from French.
  • verb delay, put off doing
Example sentences :
  • It was not quick to move or easily excited; but stolid, cautious, unambitious, procrastinating.
  • Extract from : « Laws » by Plato
  • The last had passed like the others in procrastinating from hour to hour.
  • Extract from : « Madame Bovary » by Gustave Flaubert
  • The last had passed like the others, in procrastinating from hour to hour.
  • Extract from : « Madame Bovary » by Gustave Flaubert
  • If you are one of the procrastinating kind, start in at once and get over it.
  • Extract from : « Nuggets of the New Thought » by William Walker Atkinson,
  • Oh, this procrastinating mail, and this procrastinating post-office!
  • Extract from : « The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc » by Thomas de Quincey
  • The proposal does not, however, "fetch" the Emperor, who goes on procrastinating.
  • Extract from : « Odd Bits of History » by Henry W. Wolff
  • She knew, as well as anyone, that she was lazy and procrastinating in the city.
  • Extract from : « Natalie: A Garden Scout » by Lillian Elizabeth Roy
  • You say I am always either too precipitate or too procrastinating.
  • Extract from : « The Eulogy of Richard Jefferies » by Walter Besant
  • The Pope did not believe it, and became again “lax and procrastinating.”
  • Extract from : « The Divorce of Catherine of Aragon » by J.A. Froude
  • With this moral debility is joined the procrastinating spirit of the oriental.
  • Extract from : « The Andes and the Amazon » by James Orton

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