dawdling

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But I can decide that once I am outside and ready -- no sense in dawdling now."

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the deliberate act of delaying and playing instead of working

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noun

the deliberate act of delaying and playing instead of working

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noun

the deliberate act of delaying and playing instead of working

Example sentences

But I can decide that once I am outside and ready -- no sense in dawdling now."

I'm baffled by slow people with no consideration dawdling through a train station at rush hour.

The main thing students need from college is enforced accountability and pacing to keep them from dawdling.

Seems unlikely the police will overlook your driving at 50 in a 35 zone just because you're doing it on the wrong side of the road towards oncoming traffic to pass someone dawdling along at 30.

A reflection of the times I suppose - no time for dawdling about reading story or exploring worlds, quick information and quick rewards please, because time is too important to waste.

Roads today are reserved pretty much exclusively for vehicles: just try dawdling or having a conversation on a major street in any city to see what I mean.

I'd gone in with a plan to study engineering, but after I transferred to university, I kept dawdling on the math prerequisites and not taking the engineering courses that needed them.

"If you really need to have an 8 hour work day for some reason, you'll only find that the extra two hours ends up going into work-place play or dawdling"Either you don't have enough to do or aren't passionate enough about what you're working on.