belated , also: lated old use

However, all these belated efforts have now been brought to an end.

Hands reached out to stay him, but they were belated.

Then he was asked about the government's belated efforts to help the poor in the South.

His start was belated, but he had plenty of time.

He was already by the door when she managed a belated thank you.

His career, however belated, is a major American sports success story.

But perhaps a belated introduction is not such a bad thing.

Then a look of belated enlightenment came over his face.

A belated impulse makes me turn over my own hand.

In a few instances, it takes me back to my own belated start.

We could not doubt that justice, if belated, had come at last.

They decided to go down the stairs, even though the move was belated.

Obama's already got his Nobel, which was anything but belated.

It was a belated effort to set the historical record straight.

All the questions that she had not asked herself before this started were now making a belated appearance.

Mel was not going to take on any belated responsibility.

A belated smile tells me he said this in fun.

Above all, be prepared to field questions about why you're taking a belated honeymoon.

The Prince had to pay a belated visit to his mother that evening.

He earned another, rather belated Test cap, at the age of 37.

It is possible to receive a belated message up to six months after the event.

The brothers had decided that based on some belated research, they were paying too big a cut.

It was a step forward, but a tenuous and belated one.

This rather belated official intervention has not met with much success.

Of course I welcome that, but it is a belated conversion.