dilatoriness

Diligence was his middle name, but few have made dilatoriness sound so attractive.

Once the mosquitoes hit, the cow's dilatoriness became almost more than Newt could endure.

"Now, sir," prodded the commissioner, to discourage any inclination toward dilatoriness.

He was tormented with the idea that he had betrayed English magic by his dilatoriness.

"I see Daughters of Dilatoriness actually hard at labor.

Perhaps they may have been some dilatoriness earlier but the Council is committed to finalize it at the December meeting.

There was always reluctance, dilatoriness, strife, whenever any question of going out on an errand arose.

He deplored the House's 'dilatoriness' in voting funds for the war with Spain.

Butler indirectly accused Smith of "dilatoriness" and the dispute escalated to Grant.

Decades went by but no history appeared; the next Elector became quite annoyed at Leibniz's apparent dilatoriness.

He drew lurid pictures of what happened to those who were thought to be guilty of dilatoriness or want of zeal.

But so deep is the disgust with its dilatoriness that Porritt is not alone in breaking ranks.

He argues that the defendant favored Philip and accuses him of the dilatoriness of the envoys.

-dilatoriness over King's collection.

He was regularly attacked (not least by Samuel Pepys) for incompetence, dilatoriness, arrogance and bad temper.

I had rather hoped that the legendary West Highland dilatoriness would have prevented anything much happening for years, but instead the scheme is going ahead fast.

The winter, however, was spent cheerfully; and although the spring was uncommonly late, when it came its beauty compensated for its dilatoriness.

"And were it not for the dilatoriness of many contributors," he wrote, clearly in a tetchy mood, "I should not hesitate to name an earlier period."

Chang Yu says: "So long as victory can be attained, stupid haste is preferable to clever dilatoriness."

Too many systems must have failed simultaneously to produce this total silence, and he smothered another curse at the dilatoriness of Camp Charon's efforts.

The dilatoriness of that august body is so legendary that all present would be long retired-or worse-before a decision is made.

She was laboriously typing at a speed which could have explained Maggie Hewson's strictures about the firm's dilatoriness.

Today's ceremony was a tribute to the dilatoriness of Sir Guy Carleton, the British commander in New York.

It was therefore probably owing to undue dilatoriness on the part of Bassendyne that the complete Bible was not published till 1579.

At length, Lincoln complained of the dilatoriness of his expensive generals, and Washburne listened; and helped himself to the last course, apple pie.