lingerer

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Q. Lingerer loathing: My roommate and I have an issue we could use your help on.

From Slate • Aug. 19, 2019

In the Case of the Lone Lingerer, the lawyer didn’t convince him, either.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover

"Lingerer, depart; this is no place for idlers."

From Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life by Haines, T. L. (Thomas Louis)

From pursuing this policy he received the surname of Cunctator, or the Lingerer.

From A Smaller History of Rome by Smith, William, Sir

The old Lingerer was, at eighty, too clever, slow as they thought him at Rome, to be "taken in" by Hannibal, who had prepared a nice trap for him, into which he would not walk.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 78, April, 1864 by Various