Crossword clues for dawdling
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dawdle \Daw"dle\ (d[add]"d'l), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Dawdled; p. pr. & vb. n. Dawdling.] [Cf. Daddle.] To waste time in trifling employment; to trifle; to saunter.
Come some evening and dawdle over a dish of tea with
me.
--Johnson.
We . . . dawdle up and down Pall Mall.
--Thackeray.
Wiktionary
n. The act of one who dawdles. vb. (present participle of dawdle English)
WordNet
n. the deliberate act of wasting time instead of working [syn: dalliance, trifling, wasting time]
Usage examples of "dawdling".
Why you dawdling here when danger is standing right outside your window?
He then excused himself, courier bag clasped tightly to his side, and, nodding right and left to the dawdling crewmembers to get back to their work, left the bay.
Even when he was sent on message-runs, he made the return trip so fast no one could possibly accuse him of dawdling and gossiping on the way.
Her menses had been late in coming, as if her body had to balance nature by dawdling along while her mind raced ahead.
While these possibilities ran past his inner scrutineer a remote corner of his mind called out shrilly against the injustice of missing stays - unknown in such conditions, monstrous, a malignancy designed to make him late on his station, to allow Harte to call him unofficerlike, no seaman, a dawdling Sybarite, a slow-arse.
I wished there was time to do better, but I knew Kettricken would tolerate my unkempt appearance more than she would my dawdling to change it.
But thee may as well take care of theeself, Ruth, and not go dawdling along with a young man in his adventures, until thy own mind is a little more settled what thee wants.
Buzz took side streets over to Hollywood and Vine, dawdling at stoplights.