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Dawdler

Dawdler \Daw"dler\, n. One who wastes time in trifling employments; an idler; a trifler.

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dawdler

n. a person who dawdles or idles

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dawdler

n. someone who takes more time than necessary; someone who lags behind [syn: drone, laggard, lagger, trailer]

Usage examples of "dawdler".

From then on the motorways, instead of being a ribbon of pleasure for Clive, unrolling with merry welcome, were concrete channels of anger, full of selfish dawdlers creeping up the middle lane with inflaming insensitivity: each licence-plated rump sneered at him personally.

The eye sockets glowed, for slime dawdlers had made their dwelling inside it.

The place was crowded with strange, rusting machinery and broken pipes thicker than tree-trunks, which harbored more of the glowing slime dawdlers as well as larger flying creatures that took fright at their presence and skittered off hooting into the darkness.

There were no loiterers, no dawdlers, no one lingering in the crisp air to enjoy a cigarette before returning to his labors inside.

Kuwaiti drivers are not the most polite in the world, nor the most tolerant of dawdlers, as you will soon discover.