dawdling

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How many fashionable women at the end of a long season would be ready to welcome heaven itself as a relief from the desperate monotony of dressing, dawdling, and driving!

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  1. Sauntering; idling. There is the man whose rapid strides indicate his excitement, and the slow and dawdling walk indicative of purposeless aim. F. Warner, Physical Expression, p. 56.

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