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

Regulators said when they filed the case that his tardy filing allowed him to spend less to buy up Twitter’s shares, saving him more than $150 million on the investment.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 4, 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

From these kinds of soldiers, therefore, come only slow, tardy, and weak conquests but sudden and astonishing losses.

From "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli

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

ARBITER: A mite tardier than lightning but still promptly stated .

From NATURAE by Dom

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

From Son of Power by Will Levington Comfort

So there, Nor tardier, to his toil the Lord of Flame 478 Springs from his couch of down, the workmen's task to frame.

From The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor by Edward Fairfax Taylor

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 Charles James Lever

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

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

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