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Meanings of dawdling in English
Catalan
frivolitat Usage of dawdling in English
1
Mr. Lorry had been dawdling away the months in Mexico and California.
2
It was an outright falsehood, but Matthew had no time for dawdling.
3
But they are kept dawdling around, and never know where they're at.
4
Well, then I became rich, and I've been dawdling about ever since.
5
Therefore, dawdling by ICANN represents an active vote to maintain the current contract.
6
Kate was dawdling on the lawn as the two returned to the house.
7
They swallow worlds at leisure; creep through systems with dawdling complacence.
8
In the morning she came down early, despite some dawdling over her toilet.
9
Among the things we don't put up with is dawdling service.
10
Unfortunately, this time, the trick of dawdling over paperwork had backfired on him.
11
She was just leaving the premises of the inn strolling, nay dawdling, along.
12
A careless observer would have thought that the poet was dawdling.
13
They had been dawdling over the dishes, and their eyes had frequently met.
14
A dawdling escort might encourage her ladyship to curb her horses.
15
A dawdling August Perseid scratched a thin mark of light across the blackness.
16
The old man could stand nothing as little as what he called dawdling.
About this term
Frequent collocations
Dawdling through the time
Dawdling across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common