dawdling

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• In the past, a school might have dawdled in making a decision about a self-imposed ban or an appeal, but it wasn’t shocking when it eventually accepted a penalty.

• Traveling across the isle on foot without dashing is unappealing since large areas of the environment look rather plain, giving scant reason to dawdle.

• But the small boy who was unwillingly dawdling through a series of poses for it, to-day refused all bribes to be good.

• I knew that the poor girl from Kansas must get up with the sun, too, for her uncle was not the man to brook any dawdling.

• "I always make it a point to be punctual," Lamb dawdling in the background, overheard him say.

• This is the method of Vacuity or Dawdling formerly mentioned.

• An' ye aims ter trust ther life of ther only real man in these mountings ter ther dawdling of sonny?

• The men are doing something noble, not dawdling away these glorious days in selling tape and ribbons.