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dilly-dally
verb as in waste time
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Why dilly-dally with teenage angst when you can bring on the Giant Robots, that was my motto.
"I wouldn't dilly-dally long if I were you," said Harkless, and his advice seemed good to the shell-men.
There will be some real shooting here if you dilly-dally any longer.
Some foolish fish always dilly-dally up-stream till the ice shuts them in.
Uncle says he's going express hereafter; he says no more dilly-dally voyages for him.
He says it was one o' them plans as dilly-dally is death on.
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On this page you'll find 195 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to dilly dally, such as: amble, meander, mope, ramble, traipse, and dally.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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