Someone who takes more time than necessary; someone who lags behind.
1 He would see me a devotee of fashion, a dawdler after a pretty face.
2 Just one dawdler can gum up the whole process.
3 I am but a dawdler , a do-nothing, the butt and laughing-stock of all brave men.
4 Spike is no dawdler with serious business before him.
5 Quick, I say-here, somebody kick that one - eyed dawdler !
6 Indeed, I was a confirmed dawdler almost before I was able to think or act for myself.
7 Is this where you are, you dawdler ?
8 What, not dressed yet, Mr. Clutterbuck; what a dawdler you are!-anddo look-wasever woman so used?
9 That goes without saying; and yet she could have done little for you, had you been a dawdler .
10 But that dawdler , Hivert, doesn't come!
11 The dawdler will read no books that tax his intellect, therefore shall he beg in harvest and have nothing.
12 This from Barry, the dawdler !
13 And a weakling, a dawdler like himself, must reply to a hero like that!...
14 The handsome, tender-hearted, truthful, susceptible boy was no doubt a dawdler in routine studies, but he assimilated what suited him.
15 I have been from my youth up an easy-going man, a drifter, a dawdler , always willing to put off work for play.
16 A frolicsome youth may leave something to regret in the way of time misspent; but Goethe the man was no dawdler , no easy-going Epicurean.
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