lingerer
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Our issue is that he is a lingerer!
From Slate ● Aug. 19, 2019
Remember, do not be a lingerer or a sitter.
From The Complete Bachelor Manners for Men by Walter Germain
Should I say rather that one after one the singing birds flitted from the strings, those telegraph wires betwixt the seen and the unseen, and now the last lingerer was gone?
From There & Back by George MacDonald
We had sight of George III. in our last chapter, and we shall catch sight of him again from time to time; for he was a persistent lingerer, and a most obstinate liver.
From English Lands Letters and Kings Queen Anne and the Georges by Donald G. Mitchell
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
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