unpunctuality

He was one minute late and his unpunctuality had begun to afford her a glowing satisfaction.

The train had acquired a bad reputation for slowness and unpunctuality.

Were you admiring the clock or bemoaning the unpunctuality of the King's ministers?'

But your unpunctuality isn't as bad as the fact that you don't know a single thing about automobiles.'

Teppic had a suspicion that unpunctuality was unforgivable.

All foreigners alike are appalled by their inefficiency, above all their maddening unpunctuality.

Lundsgard never criticized Nat for unpunctuality.

Their remoteness and unpunctuality, or their exorbitant charges and frauds, will be drawing forth bitter lamentations."

It was this light-hearted young man's custom to blow in with so engaging an expression and so cheerful a manner that any comment on his unpunctuality was impossible.

The biggest problem experienced on the Rhine-Main S-Bahn is frequent unpunctuality, one reason for which is the shortage of capacity in the Citytunnel.

But "the sweet life" turns sour when you take the step from tourist to resident and actually need to get things done in a land of inefficiency, bureaucracy, unpunctuality and corruption.

When Fox, attempting to delay Parliamentary proceedings to get in more of his supporters, put off the Call of the House, Rolle attacked his supporters' unpunctuality.

In addition, restrictions on the mobility of available tutors through the combined effects of severe petrol rationing and the withdrawal or serious unpunctuality of public transport services further curtailed the list of those tutors who were available for teaching.

In the labs since JN had been made Director, unpunctuality was a cardinal sin ("When you delay the start of a meeting, you steal everyone's time to pay for your own lack of efficiency. . . .").

For a long time, when she didn't come and it got to seven, to eight, to eight-thirty, he lay on the floor, on the cushions, thinking of how he would cure her of unpunctuality, change her and make her more like himself.

This would be the landlady herself, Mrs. Whithorn, reputedly a cheerful and happy-go-lucky soul of devastating untidiness and unpunctuality, whose boarding-house was the most sought-after in the area: her reputation as a cook was enviable.

He wanted to be rid of his father's values, such as duty, self-discipline, respect for tradition, even the crown itself, and to sweep aside his father's prejudices, be they against flying, unpunctuality, turned-up trousers, Americans, or even marrying twice-divorced women.

Well, what is a man to do, deprived at a stroke of his habitual daily employment for forty years and living for the first time with his widowed younger sister who is always surveying him for signs of disorder, be they physical, emotional or sartorial, and nagging him about unpunctuality for meals.