Adjective
She was tardy to work.
They were tardy in filing the application.
Recent Examples on the Web
Adjective
The chancellor’s office, the L.A.P.D. and an outside consultant hired to investigate the tardy response have all declined to discuss it, pending the outcome of an inquiry that could take weeks or months.—Serge F. Kovaleski, New York Times, 12 May 2024 On top of that fee, interest keeps building and consistently tardy consumers face the possibility of getting hit with sky-high penalty rates.—Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 7 May 2024 The money will be given to eligible families with children who are not tardy or absent more than once a week, the newspaper reported.—Danielle Jennings, Peoplemag, 1 May 2024 If a filer forgoes an extension and files late, the person risks additional fees for the tardy submission.—Max Zahn, ABC News, 12 Apr. 2024 For example, the class that watched the tardy slip interaction unfold saw adults model how to successfully manage frustration and de-escalate a situation.—Gail Cornwall, USA TODAY, 4 Apr. 2024 In its tardy response, the Air Force redacted all images of alternate logo designs that didn’t make the cut, according to the magazine.—Passant Rabie / Gizmodo, Quartz, 18 Mar. 2024 Still, this is less than half of the Golden State’s 0.8 percent tardy mortgages at year-end 2019 as well as better than elsewhere in the U.S.
Nationally, there was a 0.57 percent delinquency rate, up 0.14 percentage points in a year.—Jonathan Lansner, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Mar. 2024 Collins’s tardy mea culpa is welcome, and so too was the testimony last month of Britain’s prime minister, Rishi Sunak, during the country’s independent public inquiry into its Covid response.—John Fund, National Review, 4 Jan. 2024
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Word History
Etymology
Adjective
alteration of earlier tardif, from Anglo-French, from Vulgar Latin *tardivus, from Latin tardus
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