dilatory

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.

"Mr Trump's current situation is a result of his own dilatory actions," he wrote.

In early February, after Harvard’s first round of submissions, Representative Foxx accused it of a “limited and dilatory” response.

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.

Representative Virginia Foxx, a Republican of North Carolina, said Harvard was providing a “limited and dilatory” response to her investigation of the school’s handling of alleged campus antisemitism.