Sample Sentences for
dilatory
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    His family knew him to be, on all common occasions, a most negligent and dilatory correspondent; but at such a time they had hoped for exertion.  (source)
    dilatory = slow
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    Oh, these bleak winds and bitter northern skies, and impassable roads, and dilatory country surgeons!  (source)
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    Thank you for sending us Two Figures by a Fountain, and please accept our apologies for this dilatory response.  (source)
    dilatory = tardy (late or slow)
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    —this, the perfect setting for his dilatory indolence:  (source)
    dilatory = inclined to waste time
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    Once the mosquitoes hit, the cow's dilatoriness became almost more than Newt could endure.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    He was dilatorily throwing up a piece of wood into the fire every now and then, a business which seemed to have engaged him a considerable part of the evening, for his face was somewhat weary.†  (source)
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    I am not to blame that the Minister is vacillating, a coward, dense, dilatory, and has all bad qualities.  (source)
    dilatory = slow
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    The winter, however, was spent cheerfully; and although the spring was uncommonly late, when it came its beauty compensated for its dilatoriness.†  (source)
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    ...a merchant or two, at the door of the post-office, together with an editor and a miscellaneous politician, awaiting a dilatory mail;  (source)
    dilatory = late (delayed)
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    With an income quite sufficient to their wants thus secured to them, they had nothing to wait for after Edward was in possession of the living, but the readiness of the house, to which Colonel Brandon, with an eager desire for the accommodation of Elinor, was making considerable improvements; and after waiting some time for their completion, after experiencing, as usual, a thousand disappointments and delays from the unaccountable dilatoriness of the workmen, Elinor, as usual, broke through the first positive resolution of not marrying till every thing was ready, and the ceremony took place in Barton church early in the autumn.†  (source)
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    A little girl was driving home her cow, a plodding, dilatory, provoking creature in her behavior, but a valued companion for all that.  (source)
    dilatory = slow
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    Perhaps Gray himself was there; and the Scotchman cursed his own dilatoriness in waiting till darkness had covered the earth before setting afoot inquiries.†  (source)
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    The latter method of obtaining the desired intelligence was dilatory and unsatisfactory; besides, I had an insurmountable aversion to the idea of engaging myself in my loathsome task in my father's house while in habits of familiar intercourse with those I loved.†  (source)
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