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Meanings of dilly-dallier in English

Catalan
triganer

Someone who wastes time.

        triganer
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        Examples for "mope"
        Examples for "mope"
        1
        Are you really going to mope your way through the New Year?
        Any way you want me
        2
        All the rest of the day he would mope in silent wretchedness.
        Hero Tales and Legends of the Rhine
        3
        I'm not going to complain, I'm not going to mope about it.
        Reuters
        4
        Ma tolerates you, just lets you sit around the house and mope.
        Depraved
        5
        She would not mope, and she would not show the white feather.
        One Man in His Time
        1
        The handsome and fashionably dressed street-lounger is very frequently a resourceful rascal.
        Danger! A True History of a Great City's Wiles and Temptations /...
        2
        He was nothing but a Sunday lounger, like the others, like myself.
        The King in Yellow
        3
        And suddenly Josh was back in the study, sitting in the lounger.
        The Necromancer
        4
        He ventured out with the bottle, sat on a lounger and reclined.
        Secret of the seventh son
        5
        The lounger gazed at the path of lamplight which framed the bare hitching-rail.
        Jim Waring of Sonora-Town; Or, Tang of Life
        1
        You know what he says-'Theaesthete is, after all, only a dallier.
        The Tempting of Tavernake
        2
        Blake Reynolds scored 19 points, Alex Copeland had 14 and Anthony Dallier had 12.
        Reuters
        Translations for dilly-dallier