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dilatoriness

NOUN
belatedness
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In Barcelona, the basilica, funded by donations and now, more amply, by tourist dollars, has become a metaphor for dilatoriness and delay.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 14, 2026

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

An address was drawn up, having among others the Duke of Norfolk’s signature, telling the Pope that the divorce must be conceded, and complaints were sent through Casalis against Campeggio’s dilatoriness.

From The Divorce of Catherine of Aragon The Story as Told by the Imperial Ambassadors Resident at the Court of Henry VIII by J.A. Froude




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