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Definition of "dilatorily" []

  • In a dilatory manner. (adverb)

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Use "dilatorily" in a sentence
  • "In 1781 Johnson at last completed his Lives of the Poets, of which he gives this account: ‘Some time in March I finished the Lives of the Poets, which I wrote in my usual way, dilatorily and hastily, unwilling to work, and working with vigour and haste.’"
  • "The Sofia government treated these advances dilatorily, and was already leaning to the Central Powers, which were prepared to promise whatever Bulgaria wanted, in view of the fact that Bulgarian aspirations were directed chiefly to Serbian and Greek territory."
  • "To them Tatius and the Sabines seemed to proceed somewhat dilatorily."
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