dawdling's Usage Examples:

rear of the column —believing the day's march to be nearly at an end —was dawdling.

the north, Thihapate's campaign period of five months, and Maha Nawrahta dawdling near Ayutthaya—have merged to create this Siamese mythology.

laundry or to stock the kitchen with food because of procrastination and dawdling.

enjoy more than anything the so far from showy practice of wondering and dawdling and gaping: he was really, I think, much to profit by it.

どきどき[する] with a throbbing heart guzu guzu [suru] ぐずぐず[する] procrastinating or dawdling (suru not optional) shiin to [suru] しいんと[する] [be (lit.

At 1200 metres, with the pace dawdling, Farah alone chose to take advantage of the water stop, having to run all.

From contemporary reviews, a reviewer in Variety described the film as a "dawdling cheapie with a light cast which topples to the status of a 'C' programmer.

Whilst dawdling in the country on a newly-bought bicycle, Polly has a brief dalliance with.

the composition's dark tone: "The first four stanzas are meant to give a dawdling more or less amiable picture of a declining Maine sea town.

benefits from an agreeable cast, but that isn't enough to offset this dawdling drama's punishing three-hour runtime.

ensemble cast's committed work in a carelessly constructed, aimlessly dawdling story.

Macdonell in his 1934 book Napoleon and His Marshals describes Stuart as "a dawdling, incompetent and evil-minded man", but it is unclear why Macdonell issues.

and has an agreeably silly sense of humor, but they're often adrift in a dawdling story with too few laugh-out-loud moments.

Even Beaumarchais admits that some critics describe the genre as deadly dawdling prose with no comic relief, maxims, or characters with improbable plots.

While Zwickel is plodding to bring the dawdling composer duo Jupp (Willy Fritsch) and Juppi (Hardy Krüger) Holunder up.

His father is annoyed with his dawdling.

After dawdling on the lead for the first three-quarters of a mile, he came home in 22.

Synonyms:

trifling; delay; holdup; dalliance;

Antonyms:

valuable; rush; accelerate; activity;