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dawdler

noun as in derelict

noun as in dilly-dallier

noun as in laggard

noun as in lingerer

noun as in loiterer

noun as in procrastinator

noun as in slowpoke

noun as in sluggard

noun as in straggler

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Example Sentences

But he knows that he is just a dawdler compared to Chomsky, the great big mindbender.

He had been called a dawdler and a trifler and a do-nothing.

The pinch of necessity had come at last: the world no longer offered him the life of an elegant dawdler.

Indeed, I was a confirmed dawdler almost before I was able to think or act for myself.

And a weakling, a dawdler like himself, must reply to a hero like that!

You were never meant to become a cynical dawdler in a country house.

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On this page you'll find 166 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to dawdler, such as: felon, hoodlum, juvenile delinquent, lawbreaker, offender, and wrongdoer.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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