as in lateness
the quality or state of being late
habitual tardiness will be recorded in your personnel file
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Cyber tardiness The compounding failures in PowerSchool's crisis self-author a cyber readiness agenda that executives, boards, investors, tech leaders and schools must address.
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Noah Barsky, Forbes, 24 Mar. 2025
That was enough tardiness to let a good chance slip away.
—Steve Conroy, Boston Herald, 14 Mar. 2025
Eckhart was fired from Fox News in June, 2020, in what the network said was due to tardiness, disclosure of a proprietary graphics package and misappropriation of company resources.
—Ted Johnson, Deadline, 12 Mar. 2025
Despite the preemptive tardiness chiding, the runway show began at 11.25.
—Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 7 Mar. 2025
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Noah Barsky, Forbes, 24 Mar. 2025
That was enough tardiness to let a good chance slip away.
—Steve Conroy, Boston Herald, 14 Mar. 2025
Eckhart was fired from Fox News in June, 2020, in what the network said was due to tardiness, disclosure of a proprietary graphics package and misappropriation of company resources.
—Ted Johnson, Deadline, 12 Mar. 2025
Despite the preemptive tardiness chiding, the runway show began at 11.25.
—Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 7 Mar. 2025
See All Example Sentences for tardiness
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“Tardiness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tardiness. Accessed 25 May. 2025.
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