dilatory
Example Sentences
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Attempts to clean up trillions of dollars in off-balance-sheet debts owed by local governments proceed at a dilatory pace.
Public opinion has split between those who have taken the king to task for being dilatory and those who think he has played the situation correctly.
There have always been those who found the place, with its pretentious airs, dilatory pacing and stultifying rules of order, a frustrating environment to work in, much less thrive.
From Los Angeles Times
In early February, after Harvard’s first round of submissions, Representative Foxx accused it of a “limited and dilatory” response.
From New York Times
When there is a claim, however frivolous and intentionally dilatory, it must receive the same slow service as every other claim at the courthouse window.
From Salon
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