tardy

Those of us who languish in the academic wasteland are too tardy to lament, so little has changed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026

In “Back to the Future,” Tolkan portrayed Vice Principal Gerald Strickland, who surveyed the school’s halls with a whistle around his neck and a tardy slip burning a hole in his pocket.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 30, 2026

She told her teachers that she was still going to be tardy, and besides, she liked the exercise.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 9, 2026

The latest, if tardy, look at the labor market wasn’t so bad at first glance.

From MarketWatch ● Dec. 20, 2025

When I get to school, the tardy bell for first period is ringing.

From "Piecing Me Together" by Renée Watson

The next morning he slept over; was tardier at his desk than he has almost ever been, arriving shortly after ten.

From Time Magazine Archive

I was living in the daily hope of that remittance from you, which, by the way, seems always tardier in coming in proportion as Ireland grows more prosperous.

From The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. I by Lever, Charles James

Had the deed been premeditated, his repentance would have been tardier.

From Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 5 With His Letters and Journals by Moore, Thomas

The effect here is tardier than when the speck of putrid liquid was employed.

From Fragments of science, V. 1-2 by Tyndall, John

Not tardier now is Saturn than of old, Nor radiant less the burning casque of Mars.

From Poemata : Latin, Greek and Italian Poems by John Milton by Cowper, William

TAP Air Portugal is one of the tardiest of airlines.

From Seattle Times ● May 1, 2023

The tardiest opening gavel was only 15 minutes late; with Missouri's vote, Nixon's renomination came only eight minutes late.

From Time Magazine Archive

Her throat was bare, and her dusky hair was a shade dishevelled, and in her meditative eyes he caught the flicker of her tardiest dream just as it vanished.

From Gallantry Dizain des Fetes Galantes by Cabell, James Branch

But Meriones, stout squire of Idomeneus, came in a spear-throw behind famous Menelaos, for tardiest of all were his sleek-coated horses, and slowest he himself to drive a chariot in the race.

From The Iliad by Homer

Each waited long before his opportunity came; each learned that the "tardiest of the immortals are the boon Hours."

From The Galaxy, April, 1877 Vol. XXIII.—April, 1877.—No. 4. by Various