dilatoriness
Example Sentences
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In his letter to Lyell, he rued his own dilatoriness.
From Scientific American • Dec. 12, 2011
Popular Premier Venizelos knew what most Greeks in the Middle East urgently wanted: an end to the old Tsouderos cabinet's dilatoriness, a broadened government capable of administering liberated Greece until elections could be held.
From Time Magazine Archive
But Chungking reported last week that Soviet dilatoriness had "much affected" the feasibility of the landing.
From Time Magazine Archive
Circumloc′utory.—Circumlocution office, a name given by Dickens in Little Dorrit to the government offices, owing to their dilatoriness in attending to business.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
But he fell from grace in 1245, and was dismissed, the reason given being his dilatoriness in bringing reinforcements to his royal master in Wales.
From The Viceroys of Ireland by O'Mahony, Charles
