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Significados de laggard en inglés

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Someone who takes more time than necessary; someone who lags behind.

mandra

Wasting time.

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Examples for "dilatory"
Examples for "dilatory"
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He reminds the dilatory, and admonishes the forgetful, always in friendly fashion.
Modern Saints and Seers
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Even up here in our dilatory Dutchess County the breeze smells green.
Dear Enemy
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He was purposely dilatory, and was often the last one to finish.
The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals: A Book of Personal Observ...
4
He must, however, not be too hastily blamed for his dilatory improvement.
A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln / Condensed from Nicolay & Hay's...
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He is the soul of honour; though so deucedly dilatory in money matters.
Framley Parsonage
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She seems to have gone to live in a very poky place.
A Young Mutineer
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And it was in that poky, cage-like den he breathed his last.
The Centaur
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There is nothing at all to do, but to take poky walks.
The Gate of the Giant Scissors
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I'd rather have any ugly, poky old den that was next door.
Mary Olivier: a Life
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Says they 're wofully old-fashioned and poky,-looklike Canadians and poor folks.
Homes and How to Make Them
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Reality: Your accommodation is too pokey to accommodate even a small, portable braai.
The South African
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Yes, a few mostly in pokey places, yet they are useful.
London's Underworld
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There's a distinctly hokey pokey look to this photograph from 1988.
The Irish Times
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A kiwi, a silver fern, a scoop of hokey pokey ice-cream, Lion Brown.
Radio NZ
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How could you have lived in that pokey place so long?
Kate's Ordeal
Uso de laggard en inglés
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The retail sector was the laggard of the Irish economy in 2013.
The Irish Times
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It has, however, been laggard in the scientific recording of its flora.
The new yorker
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The host was no laggard in waiting on two such important guests.
Venetia
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He was not a laggard, this Julius Corbett, in anything he undertook.
The Wolf's Long Howl
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When it comes to innovation, sometimes it helps to be a laggard.
The Irish Times
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He could have used no sharper spur to urge on the laggard.
The Night Horseman
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We were stuck behind a laggard, rickety pickup loaded with pool-cleaning gear.
Internecine
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She was too energetic and too conscientious to be a laggard anywhere.
The Grimké Sisters / Sarah and Angelina Grimké: the First Americ...
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This time 'tis you who are the laggard in love, John Ireton.
The Master of Appleby / A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part w...
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Nor did those laggard hours pass less bitterly for M. de Camors.
Monsieur de Camors — Volume 3
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And I am out of mademoiselle's: she despises me for a laggard.
The Helmet of Navarre
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So stood our fathers when Blucher's laggard step hung back from Waterloo.
Campaign Pictures of the War in South Africa (1899-1900) / Lette...
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When it comes to digital innovation, Europe is usually something of a laggard.
The Irish Times
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Healthcare was the only laggard among the 11 major S&P sectors.
Reuters
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Before he arrived, Air Products was an industry laggard, Ackman wrote.
Reuters
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There was no respite for Philippine's stock market, a laggard in the region.
Reuters
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