tardy

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

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

In the blurb to the exhibition, Wintour writes that she has “probably spent a year of my life waiting for fashion shows, which are famously tardy, to begin”.

From BBC ● Dec. 3, 2024

“The potatoes are lumpy,” she responded, doing some tardy mashing with the tines of her fork.

From "The Great Gilly Hopkins" by Katherine Paterson

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 have previously mentioned how dependent the improvement of design and performance of aircraft has been upon the less simple and tardier development of the engine.

From Aviation in Peace and War by Sir Frederick Hugh Sykes

French, like English, which had a yet tardier literary growth, has pursued its course unhasting, unresting, to the present hour.

From A Short History of French Literature by George Saintsbury

It is true that a geometer, too, works for the public weal; but the process is tardier, and we may well pardon an impatience that sprung of reasoned zeal for the happiness of mankind.

From Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 2 of 3) Essay 3: Condorcet by John Morley

The slight green of uncurling leaves, the airy scarlet of the maples, the bare branches of the tardier trees, opposed no barrier to the sunlight.

From To Have and to Hold by Mary Johnston

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

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

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

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