behindhand
Example Sentences
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Considering that this Fantaisie' was ordered, and paid for, and eaten more than a year ago, I realize that I am behindhand with it.
From Time Magazine Archive
Mrs. Temple had every day a dinner fit for a king, but General Temple was invariably behindhand with his taxes.
From Throckmorton by Molly Elliot Seawell
It's just because I have been talking so long that I am behindhand.
From San-Cravate; or, The Messengers; Little Streams by Charles Paul de Kock
"I thought the work in that department was behindhand?"
From The War-Workers by E.M. Delafield
Clare, who, also, was in better health, was not behindhand in energy or industry.
From The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume I (of 2) by Florence A. Thomas Marshall
