dallier

Example Sentences

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Believe me, the Britisher is a mere dallier in comparison with his American golfing cousin.

From The Complete Golfer by Vardon, Harry

You know what he says—'The aesthete is, after all, only a dallier.

From The Tempting of Tavernake by Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)

You see by my brusque ways, my bluntness, that I have been no dallier in drawing-rooms, no holder of lady’s silk.

From By Birth a Lady by Fenn, George Manville

Finally the last dallier had his say, and, after an exchange of cordial good nights, departed.

From A Pirate of Parts by Neville, Richard