tardy

Teachers accepted tardy excuses from parents of students stuck in gas lines.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 18, 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

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

The following month, as Lavoisier and his wife were making tardy plans to slip away to Scotland, Lavoisier was arrested.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson

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

A few early lights already dotted its expanse with gold, as if to outspeed the tardier stars overhead.

From An Ambitious Woman A Novel by Edgar Fawcett

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

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

From The Pigeon Pie by Charlotte Mary Yonge

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 James Branch Cabell

Barely had the tardiest Intelligencer employees got away when the enveloping jaws of the weed closed tight, catching millions of dollars' worth of property within.

From Greener Than You Think by Ward Moore

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