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Meanings of
laggard
in English
Catalan
mandra
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Someone who takes more time than necessary; someone who lags behind.
trailer
drone
poke
dawdler
lagger
Catalan
mandra
Wasting time.
dilatory
poky
pokey
Related terms
slow
unpunctual
Synonyms
Examples for "
dilatory
"
dilatory
poky
pokey
Examples for "
dilatory
"
1
He reminds the
dilatory
,
and admonishes the forgetful, always in friendly fashion.
2
Even up here in our
dilatory
Dutchess County the breeze smells green.
3
He was purposely
dilatory
,
and was often the last one to finish.
4
He must, however, not be too hastily blamed for his
dilatory
improvement.
5
He is the soul of honour; though so deucedly
dilatory
in money matters.
1
She seems to have gone to live in a very
poky
place.
2
And it was in that
poky
,
cage-like den he breathed his last.
3
There is nothing at all to do, but to take
poky
walks.
4
I'd rather have any ugly,
poky
old den that was next door.
5
Says they 're wofully old-fashioned and
poky
,
-
look
like
Canadians and poor folks.
1
Reality: Your accommodation is too
pokey
to accommodate even a small, portable braai.
2
Yes, a few mostly in
pokey
places, yet they are useful.
3
There's a distinctly hokey
pokey
look to this photograph from 1988.
4
A kiwi, a silver fern, a scoop of hokey
pokey
ice-cream, Lion Brown.
5
How could you have lived in that
pokey
place so long?
Usage of
laggard
in English
1
The retail sector was the
laggard
of the Irish economy in 2013.
2
It has, however, been
laggard
in the scientific recording of its flora.
3
The host was no
laggard
in waiting on two such important guests.
4
He was not a
laggard
,
this Julius Corbett, in anything he undertook.
5
When it comes to innovation, sometimes it helps to be a
laggard
.
6
He could have used no sharper spur to urge on the
laggard
.
7
We were stuck behind a
laggard
,
rickety pickup loaded with pool-cleaning gear.
8
She was too energetic and too conscientious to be a
laggard
anywhere.
9
This time 'tis you who are the
laggard
in love, John Ireton.
10
Nor did those
laggard
hours pass less bitterly for M. de Camors.
11
And I am out of mademoiselle's: she despises me for a
laggard
.
12
So stood our fathers when Blucher's
laggard
step hung back from Waterloo.
13
When it comes to digital innovation, Europe is usually something of a
laggard
.
14
Healthcare was the only
laggard
among the 11 major S&P sectors.
15
Before he arrived, Air Products was an industry
laggard
,
Ackman wrote.
16
There was no respite for Philippine's stock market, a
laggard
in the region.
Other examples for "laggard"
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About this term
laggard
Adjective
Noun
Singular
Frequent collocations
biggest laggard
last laggard
perennial laggard
remain a laggard
more laggard
More collocations
Translations for
laggard
Catalan
mandra
dròpol
matapà
ociós
Laggard
through the time
Laggard
across language varieties
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Common