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View definitions for dallying

dallying

adjective as in flirtatious

adjective as in flirty

adjective as in loafing

Strong matches

noun as in coquetry

Strong matches

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Example Sentences

He must surely know by now - but this needless dallying around the edge of the subject is now becoming faintly farcical.

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Rabbi Matondo then spurned a big chance to double Rangers' lead on the brink of half-time, dallying on the ball and allowing Atkinson to get back and block the shot.

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Arsenal went into half-time with 15 attempts at goal, of which only three were on target, and the second half started with Odegaard dallying on another chance.

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I see the USA dallying with autocracy and anti-democratic ideology — deplorable and chilling.

Scholz’s dallying may mean the Leopards won’t arrive by spring, and the projected numbers are still insufficient — Ukraine says it needs 300 — but 70 German tanks is a good start, and more may follow.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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