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dawdle
Synonyms and Antonyms of dawdle
- If you continue to dawdle, we'll be late for sure.
drag one's feet (also drag one's heels), drop behind, fall behind, hang fire, mark time, take one's time
- accused the city council of dawdling even as the city's infrastructure continued to crumble
bum, chill, dally, dillydally, goof (off), hack (around), hang (around or out), idle, kick around, kick back, laze, lazy, loaf, loll, lounge, veg out
kill time, twiddle one's thumbs
Synonym Discussion of dawdle
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- we cannot delay any longer
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- procrastinates about making decisions
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- lagging behind in technology
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- loitered at several store windows
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- children dawdling on their way home from school
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- stop dallying and get to work
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