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own sweet time
noun as in idleness
Strong matches
noun as in inactivity
Strongest matches
Strong matches
noun as in inertness
Strong matches
noun as in inoperativeness
Weak matches
- dawdling
- dilly-dallying
- dormancy
- droning
- goof-off time
- hibernation
- idleness
- inactivity
- indolence
- inertia
- inertness
- joblessness
- laze
- lazing
- leisure
- lethargy
- loafing
- loitering
- otiosity
- pottering
- shiftlessness
- sloth
- slothfulness
- slouch
- slowness
- sluggishness
- stagnation
- stupor
- time on one's hands
- time to burn
- time to kill
- time-wasting
- torpidity
- torpor
- trifling
- truancy
- unemployment
- vegetating
Example Sentences
Despite taking their own sweet time to render what should have been a five-minute decision ruling that Donald Trump is not immune from criminal prosecution, the D.C.
Dosch owns the stage and takes her own sweet time to deliver intelligent material that is razor-sharp.
House of Representatives, Washingtonians’ choices have been settled, even with our secure mail voting system that often takes is own sweet time to operate.
Asked why it took her so long to complete the book, Dr. Milford told Newsday: “Some of it of course is because I’ve taken my own sweet time. Some of it is because I got broke and I had to go teach. I got a doctorate during that period. I had a third child. I had a divorce, more than one affair, traveled a lot. That’s from ages 31 to 60. If you don’t have a life then, when do you have it?”
He dreamed of making it to the biggest stage, but professional golf took its own sweet time while sports such as baseball, basketball and football slowly integrated.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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