LOLLYGAGGED Synonyms: 99 Similar and Opposite Words

lollygagged

verb

variants also lallygagged

past tense of lollygag

as in delayed

to move or act slowly accused the government of lollygagging while survivors of the earthquake continued to live in the most wretched conditions

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Eight wage claims alleged unpaid wages, delayed tips, bounced checks and struggles with accessing payroll records, the outlet reported.

— Camila Pedrosa, Sacbee.com, 10 Nov. 2026
The murder case against a man accused of brutally beating to death beloved Central Park artist Elise Bainbridge Hill was delayed Tuesday after he was found unfit to stand trial.

— Molly Crane-Newman, New York Daily News, 10 Nov. 2026

Definition of delayed

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Concerns lingered even though later studies showed the benefits of today’s hormone therapies outweigh the risks for many women.

— Laura Ungar, Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2026
Unaccompanied minors entering the state hit a peak of 1,441 in 2021 and lingered above 1,000 each year until last year.

— Sasha Allen, Hartford Courant, 1 Nov. 2026

Definition of lingered

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This year has both flown past and also crawled along at a snail’s pace.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 5 Nov. 2026
The lawsuit says Brave crawled and copied content from more than 30 billion webpages in its index without identifying itself or providing the owners of websites any mechanism to block its crawler, according to the newspapers’ complaint.

— Molly Crane Newman, The Orlando Sentinel, 2 Nov. 2026

Definition of crawled

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Buzelis had just fumbled his sixth turnover against the San Antonio Spurs, batting helplessly at the ball as it was poked from his grasp.

— Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 12 Nov. 2026
Kid Rock harvested an incredible elk, and poked some fun at the state of politics in America in the process.

— David Hookstead OutKick, FOXNews.com, 6 Nov. 2026

Definition of poked

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Studio Museum director Thelma Golden was chatting with MoMA board president Sarah Arison, and Jennifer Lawrence strolled in with her husband, the art dealer Cooke Maroney.

— Nate Freeman, Vanity Fair, 13 Nov. 2026
Cara Hile and her mother, Jeri, strolled up to a two-story home in Brookside Saturday, pamphlets in-hand.

— Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 3 Nov. 2026

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