lingerer
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Our issue is that he is a lingerer!
From Slate ● Aug. 19, 2019
At length the last lingerer arrived, and then began a feast of the most extraordinary kind.
From Ungava by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
Remember, do not be a lingerer or a sitter.
From The Complete Bachelor Manners for Men by Walter Germain
When that effect did not seem sufficiently deep, he called here and there upon a lingerer for applause.
From Phoebe, Junior by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant
A storm came, and strewed the beach with kelp, and blew over half the bath-houses; and then the hardiest lingerer ceased to talk of staying through October.
From The Story of a Play A Novel by William Dean Howells
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