dilatoriness
English
editEtymology
editNoun
editdilatoriness (usually uncountable, plural dilatorinesses)
- The state or quality of being dilatory.
- 1861, Anthony Trollope, Framley Parsonage:
- Nor when he got home was he much more inclined to any resolute line of action […] for he got no pen and paper, and he dawdled over his teacup with the utmost dilatoriness, putting off, as it were, the evil day.
Translations
editthe state or quality of being dilatory
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