dawdler
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(n)
dawdler
someone who takes more time than necessary; someone who lags behind
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Dawdler
One who wastes time in trifling employments; an idler; a trifler.
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dawdler
One who dawdles; a trifler; an idler.
But that dawdler, Hivert, doesn't come! "Madame Bovary" by
The handsome, tender-hearted, truthful, susceptible boy was no doubt a dawdler in routine studies, but he assimilated what suited him. "Washington Irving" by
The quick movement expressed scorn of dawdlers. "Uncle William" by
I have been a boy and a dawdler as yet. "The History of Pendennis" by
A frolicsome youth may leave something to regret in the way of time misspent; but Goethe the man was no dawdler, no easy-going Epicurean. "Beacon Lights of History, Volume XIII" by
And a weakling, a dawdler like himself, must reply to a hero like that!... "The Torrent" by
I am but a dawdler, a do-nothing, the butt and laughing-stock of all brave men. "Helmet of Navarre" by
The handsome, tender-hearted, truthful, susceptible boy was no doubt a dawdler in routine studies, but he assimilated what suited him. "Washington Irving" by
The trifler and dawdler lower the level of democracy by reason of their inefficiency. "The Vitalized School" by
He had been called a dawdler and a trifler and a do-nothing. "Under Handicap" by
Some weeks before I married you:
While you, my amorous dawdler, tarried
Till we'd been wed a year or two.