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Meanings of shillyshally in English

Portuguese
procrastinação

The act of procrastinating; putting off or delaying or defering an action to a later time.

procrastinação
Portuguese
adiar
Spanish
aplazar

Postpone doing what one should be doing.

adiar
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Examples for "procrastination"
Examples for "procrastination"
1
But this procrastination of actual hostilities was terminated in the following manner:-
Rattlin the Reefer
2
For a while, I thought the root of the problem was procrastination.
The Irish Times
3
Will this get us closer to our aim despite the Israeli procrastination?
Reuters
4
In our business, there's no time for doubts, no time for procrastination.
Occupied city
5
When do you stop reading articles on procrastination and actually stop procrastinating?
The Irish Times
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.
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Vol...
Usage of shillyshally in English
1
I've had enough of this shillyshally.
The Mark of Cain
2
'Two not sound, five true as steel, and the rest shillyshally.
Farina
Translations for shillyshally
Spanish
aplazar
Shillyshally through the time