Crossword clues for dillydally
Wiktionary
vb. (alternative spelling of dilly-dally English)
WordNet
v. postpone doing what one should be doing; "He did not want to write the letter and procrastinated for days" [syn: procrastinate, stall, drag one's feet, drag one's heels, shillyshally, dilly-dally]
Usage examples of "dillydally".
He dillydallies and bandies words with Archpriest Idyol, but refuses to commit a single soldier to the war against the Usurper.
Your dillydallying with my assistant down to the crossroads and back made you big and strong and all man again, not weak and helpless and beset by a thousand frustrations.
Democrats spend years dillydallying with lunatic despots who threaten America, eventually a Republican president comes in and threatens aggressive military action.
As far as he or anyone else was concerned, he was merely standing guard out here while the rest of the guys dillydallied out front, cleaning their weapons and waiting for the Invid to home in on that device Lancer had rigged in the armory.