as in lateness
the quality or state of being late
habitual tardiness will be recorded in your personnel file
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Recent Examples of tardiness
Most school administrators reported a lack of access to transportation contributed to chronic tardiness (76%), chronic absenteeism (74%), academic performance challenges (68%) and student safety concerns (75%).
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Andrea Lucia, CBS News, 3 Dec. 2025
For the second consecutive game, Carter was benched to start due to tardiness.
—Cole Sullivan, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Dec. 2025
Most interestingly, though, is that Heather doesn’t make a single mention of her tardiness, which is either incredibly mature, a power move, or is focused on the more pressing matter at hand.
—Tom Smyth, Vulture, 12 Nov. 2025
Meanwhile, boomers have zero tolerance for tardiness.
—Jessica Coacci, Fortune, 5 Nov. 2025
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Andrea Lucia, CBS News, 3 Dec. 2025
For the second consecutive game, Carter was benched to start due to tardiness.
—Cole Sullivan, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Dec. 2025
Most interestingly, though, is that Heather doesn’t make a single mention of her tardiness, which is either incredibly mature, a power move, or is focused on the more pressing matter at hand.
—Tom Smyth, Vulture, 12 Nov. 2025
Meanwhile, boomers have zero tolerance for tardiness.
—Jessica Coacci, Fortune, 5 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tardiness
lateness
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How must Yves Bissouma, who was left out of the squad for August’s UEFA Super Cup penalty shootout defeat to Paris-Saint Germain due to persistent lateness, feel watching his team-mate avoid facing the consequences?—
Jay Harris,
New York Times,
3 Feb. 2026
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Feldman provides an exceptional guide to a culture that produced castrati only to discard them, and to the haunted sense of too-lateness that left Moreschi outside his own life.—
Dan Piepenbring,
Harpers Magazine,
27 Jan. 2026
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“Tardiness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tardiness. Accessed 21 Feb. 2026.
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