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Significados de dawdling em inglês

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The deliberate act of delaying and playing instead of working.

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        Uso de dawdling em inglês
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        Mr. Lorry had been dawdling away the months in Mexico and California.
        Graustark
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        It was an outright falsehood, but Matthew had no time for dawdling.
        Speaks the Nightbird
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        But they are kept dawdling around, and never know where they're at.
        The Subterranean Brotherhood
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        Well, then I became rich, and I've been dawdling about ever since.
        Great Possessions
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        Therefore, dawdling by ICANN represents an active vote to maintain the current contract.
        Wired
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        Kate was dawdling on the lawn as the two returned to the house.
        The Iron Game: A Tale of the War
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        They swallow worlds at leisure; creep through systems with dawdling complacence.
        Foundation and Empire
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        In the morning she came down early, despite some dawdling over her toilet.
        The Quest of the Silver Fleece: A Novel
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        Among the things we don't put up with is dawdling service.
        Lonesome dove
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        Unfortunately, this time, the trick of dawdling over paperwork had backfired on him.
        Phantoms
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        She was just leaving the premises of the inn strolling, nay dawdling, along.
        The Indiscretion of the Duchess / Being a Story Concerning Two L...
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        A careless observer would have thought that the poet was dawdling.
        Alfred Tennyson
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        They had been dawdling over the dishes, and their eyes had frequently met.
        Sister Carrie: A Novel
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        A dawdling escort might encourage her ladyship to curb her horses.
        Jane and the madness of lord byron: being a jane austen mystery
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        A dawdling August Perseid scratched a thin mark of light across the blackness.
        Vigorish
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        The old man could stand nothing as little as what he called dawdling.
        The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, V...
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        Translations for dawdling
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        frivolitat
        Dawdling ao longo do tempo
        Dawdling nas variantes da língua
        Reino Unido
        Comum
        Estados Unidos da América
        Comum