Crossword clues for tardily
tardily
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tardily \Tar"di*ly\, adv. In a tardy manner; slowly.
Wiktionary
adv. 1 in a tardy fashion; belatedly; late 2 slowly
WordNet
adv. without speed (`slow' is sometimes used informally for `slowly'); "he spoke slowly"; "go easy here--the road is slippery"; "glaciers move tardily"; "please go slow so I can see the sights" [syn: slowly, slow, easy] [ant: quickly]
later than usual or than expected; "the train arrived late"; "we awoke late"; "the children came late to school"; "notice came so tardily that we almost missed the deadline"; "I belatedly wished her a happy birthday" [syn: late, belatedly] [ant: early]
Usage examples of "tardily".
Her bluff bows lifted tardily and sank deeply into the following trough.
The Norseman had started to say something else when, tardily, he recognized the name of Gormlaith.
She was very small, he realized tardily, and for a brief moment he was afraid of hurting her.
Messer Firenzuola would have denied the name of face at all, by virtue of a quality which indeed he has tabulated, but which is far too elusive and undefinable, too spiritual for him truly to have understood,--a quality which nowadays we are tardily recognising as the first and last of all beauty, either of nature or art,--the supreme, truly divine, because materialistically unaccountable, quality of Charm!
Neither ought we to give after long delay, because in all good offices the will of the giver counts for much, and he who gives tardily must long have been unwilling to give at all.
As Trysdale grimly wrenched apart the seam of his last glove, the crowning instance of his fatuous and tardily mourned egoism came vividly back to him.
Her height was magnified when she stood next to her husband, who resembled a gnome tardily matured on human growth hormone.
The idea of associating seamen and savages in incidents that might be supposed characteristic of the Great Lakes having been mentioned to a Publisher, the latter obtained something like a pledge from the Author to carry out the design at some future day, which pledge is now tardily and imperfectly redeemed.
Most of those on board, with the exception of the individuals who have already been particularly mentioned, were below, some seeking relief from physical suffering on their pallets, and others tardily bethinking them of their sins.
For example: Up to the moment of her flight from the Cafe des Exiles there had been, as Sofia saw it, nothing extraordinary or inexplicable in the chapter of happenings which had made her acquainted, as abruptly as tardily, with certain facts concerning her parentage.
It was actually worse, he remembered tardily, to produce a sound because you could not help but listen for the echo and no echo came.
While twilight shadows lengthen on the wall: Our spirits falter at the close of day, And weary night moves tardily away.
Demira said pertly, and Deoris recalled tardily that the Grey-robes observed no caste laws.
Fearing for their own heads, the Fathers decreed a thanksgiving, and, at least tardily, they also expelled Sulla and Rubellius from the Senate.
Thus not only would justice be done, but I should - though tardily - be even with the Count.