dawdling's Usage Examples:

ensemble cast"s committed work in a carelessly constructed, aimlessly dawdling story.

and has an agreeably silly sense of humor, but they"re often adrift in a dawdling story with too few laugh-out-loud moments.

the composition"s dark tone: "The first four stanzas are meant to give a dawdling more or less amiable picture of a declining Maine sea town.

After dawdling on the lead for the first three-quarters of a mile, he came home in 22.

Macdonell in his 1934 book Napoleon and His Marshals describes Stuart as "a dawdling, incompetent and evil-minded man", but it is unclear why Macdonell issues.

どきどき[する] with a throbbing heart guzu guzu [suru] ぐずぐず[する] procrastinating or dawdling (suru not optional) shiin to [suru] しいんと[する] [be (lit.

At 1200 metres, with the pace dawdling, Farah alone chose to take advantage of the water stop, having to run all.

and ferocities, his unsparing comic drive, his aesthetic dawdlings and beguilements, his wry, confident relish of his own astonishing effects [.

While Zwickel is plodding to bring the dawdling composer duo Jupp (Willy Fritsch) and Juppi (Hardy Krüger) Holunder up.

His father is annoyed with his dawdling.

rear of the column —believing the day"s march to be nearly at an end —was dawdling.

enjoy more than anything the so far from showy practice of wondering and dawdling and gaping: he was really, I think, much to profit by it.

Whilst dawdling in the country on a newly-bought bicycle, Polly has a brief dalliance with.

Synonyms:

trifling, delay, holdup, dalliance,

Antonyms:

valuable, rush, accelerate, activity,