Someone who takes more time than necessary; someone who lags behind.
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Examples for "dilatory "
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?
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.
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