tardy

• The progress of these last two descriptions of people will naturally be more tardy, and attended by more storm and convulsion. —  Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 2 of 3) Essay 3: Condorcet
• There was no excuse whatever for this wanton and criminal insult to our flag, yet the only reparation ever made was formal, tardy, and lame Illustration: Portrait.] —  History of the United States, Volume 2 (of 6)
• Or then why so tardy, Joshua? —  The Best Short Stories of 1920 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story
• It made the development of many of her institutions tardy, yet at the same time gave her the opportunity to borrow and assimilate what she would from the customs of foreign nations. —  An Introduction to the Industrial and Social History of England
• By some delay in the return of the messenger, added to the dilatoriness or reluctance of James, this plan was frustrated; but some time after Essex, impatient alike of the disgrace and the inactivity of his present restraint, urged Montjoy to bring over his forces without waiting for the tardy co-operation of the king of Scots. —  Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth

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