tardy

She says states accepted tardy mail ballots amid World War I, while seven authorized the practice during the 1940s.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 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

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

From MarketWatch ● Dec. 20, 2025

In October 2013, the inflation and employment reports for the prior month were also tardy by nearly two weeks because of a 16-day government shutdown.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2025

No one paid attention to the two tardy guests who appeared at the door, letting in a gust of wind, till suddenly a woman screamed and threw her arms about a snow-covered figure.

From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare

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

There is, however, this difference, that in some ages these evils last longer than in others, the wounds are deeper, the victims more numerous, the intermissions less frequent, the relief tardier, the survivors fewer.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 86, February, 1875 by Various

Merion pursued, at greater distance still, With tardier coursers, and inferior skill.

From The Iliad by Alexander Pope

"Your heels are tardier now than they were at Worcester!"

From The Pigeon Pie by Charlotte Mary Yonge

It reacted to divide his forces now, at least to make tardier his self-command.

From Son of Power by Will Levington Comfort

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

A month soon passes, even at its tardiest pace.

From The Battle of Life by Charles Dickens

Why is it that we see there both the dawn of civilization and the tardiest development of human progress?

From Beacon Lights of History, Volume 14 The New Era; A Supplementary Volume, by Recent Writers, as Set Forth in the Preface and Table of Contents by John Lord

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 James Branch Cabell