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Meanings of procrastination in English
Habitual or intentional delay of starting or finishing a task despite knowing potential negative consequences.
Related terms
Portuguese
procrastinação The act of procrastinating; putting off or delaying or defering an action to a later time.
Synonyms
Examples for "shillyshally"
Examples for "shillyshally"
1
I've had enough of this shillyshally.
2
'Two not sound, five true as steel, and the rest shillyshally.
1
Strive not to run, like Hercules, a furlong in a breath: festination may prove precipitation; deliberating delay may be wise cunctation, and slowness no slothfulness.
Portuguese
morosidade Spanish
morosidad Usage of procrastination in English
1
But this procrastination of actual hostilities was terminated in the following manner:-
2
For a while, I thought the root of the problem was procrastination.
3
Will this get us closer to our aim despite the Israeli procrastination?
4
In our business, there's no time for doubts, no time for procrastination.
5
When do you stop reading articles on procrastination and actually stop procrastinating?
6
As pressure mounted on the Maoists, its potential partners warned against procrastination.
7
The timidity and procrastination of the court could be overcome no further.
8
For nothing prolongs reckless sin like the procrastination of punishment and vengeance.
9
The mair reason he suld tell his secret, to us without procrastination.
10
But delay and procrastination have ever marked our methods through this war.
11
If that sounds too extreme, there are add-ons that humorously embrace procrastination.
12
Subduing procrastination, one should, by these means, subdue these impediments of Yoga.
13
Remember procrastination is a thief of time, stick to your study plan.
14
Had not that contrivance its effect at that time, for a procrastination?
15
But-er-congratulations of friends-and-er-courtesy due to them-er-interfered with-thoughperhaps only heightened-by procrastination-pleasureof-ha!
16
I work from home, so the temptations for procrastination are endless.
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Procrastination through the time
Procrastination across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common