be dilatory
Example Sentences
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“I would like to succeed in negotiating something where we get full and fair hearings – we’re not trying to be dilatory – and hear what these nominees have to say,” Schumer said.
From The Guardian • Jan. 5, 2017
Whether the cause is the court's work load or the Justices' inclination to be dilatory, this year has been no different.
From Time Magazine Archive
Bombay turned out to be honest and trusty, but slightly disposed to be dilatory.
From How I Found Livingstone; travels, adventures, and discoveres in Central Africa, including an account of four months' residence with Dr. Livingstone, by Henry M. Stanley by Stanley, Henry M. (Henry Morton)
Answer—No. On the contrary, I saw him urging on a company of the Thirteenth, which appeared to be dilatory.
From Troublous Times in Canada A History of the Fenian Raids of 1866 and 1870 by MacDonald, John A. (John Alexander)
Then the parsons would be dilatory and troublesome and expensive, and a good many people were apt to think that they could do very well without ceremonies.
From John Caldigate by Trollope, Anthony
