Examples
“Given the ineptitudes that followed — the Nannygate flap over Attorney General — designate Zoe Baird, gays in the military, Whitewater's first stirrings, the Mogadishu debacle — his dawdling is understandable.”
“I know you couldn't have like the word "dawdling" - but there was no such hesitation the 1st time around for the 21,000 troops (which was a 40% increase, then) and now I believe that the delay was purely a PR stunt, to make it seem like he's agonizing (as much as that's possible, from his 2 weeks at Cape Cod to being in a tuxedo, 2-3x a week) ...”
“HENRY: There's also risks political risks for Democrats if they appear to be dawdling, which is why they're also sounding a rare note of bipartisanship.”
“No man can associate the idea of dawdling with Jenkins and his Guides, yet the Guides reaching Jellalabad on October 12th were not at Gundamuk until the 23d, and Gundamuk is but thirty miles beyond”
“You can spend three hours on a single sentence, trying to get it just right, perfect -- a wonderful luxury, the kind of dawdling that's usually impossible with a novel.”
The Huffington Post: Anis Shivani: Short Stories: Writers Talk About The Form To Anis Shivani
“HENRY: There's also political risk for Democrats if they appear to be dawdling which is why they're also sounding a rare note of bipartisanship.”
“Government had expressed "astonishing denialism" over the matter and its "dawdling" had fuelled a media frenzy which an inquiry and”
“The only person seriously angry at the Prime Minister's "dawdling," was Mina Zabriska; and she had enjoyed no chance of telling him so.”
Tristram of Blent An Episode in the Story of an Ancient House
“A scolding awaited her, as usual, first for "dawdling," and then for spilling a few drops of water on the brick floor as she set down the heavy pails.”
“After a total of ten "dawdling" miles, marching almost due east, we found our tents pitched in a broad and quasi-circular basin, called El-Safh”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘dawdling’.
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Chains Vocab List #1
Words Used in "Chains" Novel. 6th Period
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On The Road
It's a book by Jack Kerouac
Vague, jalopy, naïve, emaciated, vindicate, hysterical, Obsequious, Schopenhauer, dichotomy, jargon, phosphorescence, lout and 87 more...
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Words
fickle, redeem, disclosure, fortnight, depict, convey, scribe, affluent, commuter, defection, churn, vouch and 77 more...
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simple & useful10
reprehensible, spirality, blackballed, mothballing, semiautobiographical, auspiciously, gaping, spawning, liquidating, pussyfooting, vinify, avengeful and 60 more...
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whiling away the time
whiling away the ..., boondoggling, nodding off, dilly-dallying, spinning cobwebs, daydreaming, woolgathering, lollygagging, dozing, moseying, dawdling, puttering
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GHibbs My adjectival use: 'The dawdling children will be late for class.; Aug 22, 2011