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Synonyms and Antonyms of temporizes
- Pressured by voters on both sides of the issue, the congressmen temporized.
filibusters, procrastinates, stalls
crawls, creeps, dallies, dawdles, delays, diddles, dillydallies, drags, lags, lingers, loiters, lollygags (also lallygags), mopes, pokes, shilly-shallies, tarries
fiddles (around), fools around, messes around, monkeys (around), plays, potters (around), putters (around), trifles
hangs (around or out), idles, loafs, lolls, lounges
ambles, eases, inches, lumbers, plods, saunters, shuffles, staggers, strolls
bowls, breezes, darts, humps, hurtles, hustles, scrambles, stampedes
gallops, jogs, runs, sprints, trots
accelerates, quickens, speeds (up)
catches up, fast-forwards, outpaces, outruns, outstrips, overtakes
barrels, bolts, careers, courses, dashes, flies, hastens, hotfoots (it), hurries, races, rips, rockets, runs, rushes, scoots, scuds, scurries, speeds, tears, whirls, whisks, whizzes, zips
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