cunctatory
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[edit] Etymology
From Latin cunctor (“delay, impede”).
[edit] Adjective
cunctatory
- delaying; procrastinating
- 1988, Alan Hollinghurst, The Swimming Pool Library, Penguin Books (1988), page 252
- Indeed, for several weeks the time rushed by, and it was really only in the final month, when freedom grew palpably close, that every minute took on a crabwise, cunctatory manner, came near to stalling altogether.
- 1988, Alan Hollinghurst, The Swimming Pool Library, Penguin Books (1988), page 252
