dilatory

Example Sentences

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Dilatory as Gay always was, he contrived to finish his opera by about the end of the year.

From Life And Letters Of John Gay (1685-1732) by Melville, Lewis

Dilatory motions to prevent the consideration of business are comparatively recent expedients, and should not be favored in any case save where absolutely required by some clear rule of established practice.

From Slavery and Four Years of War, Vol. 1-2 A Political History of Slavery in the United States Together With a Narrative of the Campaigns and Battles of the Civil War In Which the Author Took Part: 1861-1865 by Keifer, Joseph Warren

Dilatory tactics on the part of the Madrid Government delayed the actual transfer of the territory more than two years.

From The Reign of Andrew Jackson by Ogg, Frederic Austin

Dilatory in his early as well as his later years, Scott left his house that morning half an hour late.

From Old and New London Volume I by Thornbury, Walter

And, apparently, this time Dilatory was not coming, for the travelers walked all the way without meeting the carriage.

From Patty Fairfield by Wells, Carolyn