dilatoriness
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]dilatoriness (usually uncountable, plural dilatorinesses)
- The state or quality of being dilatory.
- 1861, Anthony Trollope, Framley Parsonage:
- Nor when he got home was he much more inclined to any resolute line of action […] for he got no pen and paper, and he dawdled over his teacup with the utmost dilatoriness, putting off, as it were, the evil day.
Translations
[edit]the state or quality of being dilatory
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