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101trifle — trifle, toy, dally, flirt, coquet can all mean to deal with a person or thing without seriousness, earnestness, close attention, or purpose. Trifle, the most comprehensive term of the group, may be used interchangeably with any of the others,… …
102weariless — unwearying, unwearied, tireless, *indefatigable, untiring, unflagging Analogous words: dogged, pertinacious (see OBSTINATE): assiduous, sedulous, diligent (see BUSY) Contrasted words: lagging, dawdling, procrastinating (see DELAY): indolent,… …
103creeping — adj 1. crawling, crawling on all fours; vermicular, squirming, wriggling, wiggling, Zool. rep tant. 2. slow, dragging, plodding, snail like, dawdling; lagging, trailing, tardy, dilatory. 3. cowering, crouching, cringing; groveling, reptilian,… …
104dalliance — n 1. dawdling, dillydallying, shilly shallying, procrastination; delay, Archaic. tarriance, loitering, lingering, Sl. hanging around; idling, loafing, Inf. lallygagging, Sl. goofing off. 2. trifling, toying, fiddling, playing, tinkering,… …
105delay — v 1. defer, postpone, suspend, table, shelve, Sl. put on the shelf, pigeonhole, prorogue; hold off, hold up, lay over, refrain from further action, hold in abeyance, put in cold storage, put on ice, put on a back burner, hang fire, put in a… …
106dilatory — adj 1. procrastinating, postponing, deferring, tabling, shelving; slow, lagging, laggard, sluggish, backward; dallying, dillydallying, shillyshallying, idling; lingering, loitering, dawdling, tarrying, Chiefly Brit. pottering; lackadaisical,… …
107idle — adj 1. inactive, unoccupied, at leisure, doing nothing; unemployed, workless, out of work, not working, jobless, out of a job, Inf. collecting, on the dole, on welfare; vagrant, Inf. on the bum. 2. unfilled, vacuous, vacant, empty, not in use,… …
108idleness — n 1. inoccupation, unemployment, idle hands, idle hours, time on one s hands; leisure, ease, Chiefly Literary. idlesse, spare time, free time, Inf. time to burn, Inf. dodge time, command time; vacation, recess, Inf. letup. 2. inertness, inertia,… …
109lateness — n 1. tardiness, unpunctuality, unpunctu alness; slowness, laggardness, lagging, loitering, lingering, tarrying, dallying, dilly dallying, dawdling, hanging back. 2. delay, cunctation, procrastination, dilatoriness, procrastinativeness;… …
110poky — adj Informal. 1. dawdling, dillydallying, lingering, lagging, puttering; crawling, snail like, tortoise like; slow, unhurried, leisurely, relaxed, easy. 2. indecisive, hesitant, uncertain, hanging back, tentative; faltering, hesitating, wavering …
