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dilly-dallying
noun as in dalliance
Weak matches
noun as in idleness
Strong matches
noun as in inactivity
Strongest matches
Strong matches
noun as in inertness
Strong matches
noun as in inoperativeness
Weak matches
- dawdling
- dormancy
- droning
- goof-off time
- hibernation
- idleness
- inactivity
- indolence
- inertia
- inertness
- joblessness
- laze
- lazing
- leisure
- lethargy
- loafing
- loitering
- otiosity
- own sweet time
- pottering
- shiftlessness
- sloth
- slothfulness
- slouch
- slowness
- sluggishness
- stagnation
- stupor
- time on one's hands
- time to burn
- time to kill
- time-wasting
- torpidity
- torpor
- trifling
- truancy
- unemployment
- vegetating
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Example Sentences
Here we are frightened at names, dilly-dallying and quarreling over idle words, when a tremendous crisis calls for acts.
But its no use dilly-dallying, and Shultz may as well understand it.
The fates were resolved that there should be no dilly-dallying by the principals chosen for this drama that they had staged.
It takes "thirty years" of dilly-dallying before Christian scholars will admit that the persecuted heretic was in the right.
It should go to work and build, right now and without any dilly-dallying or delay, the Calaveras Reservoir.
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On this page you'll find 200 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to dilly-dallying, such as: delay, idling, loafing, playing, poking, and procrastination.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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