Synonyms for dilly-dally
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Verb
1. Drag one's feet
loiter, delay, drag one's feet, linger, procrastinate, drag one's heels, stall, lag, lollygag US, tarry dated
Definitions
- v. 1
To dawdle; to waste time; to procrastinate.
Related words
- Other spellings
- dilly dally dillydally
Forms
- Past participle
- dilly-dallied
e.g. dilly-dallied → loitered, delayed, lingered, procrastinated…
Example sentences
- stall Lorenzo headed to the stall directly next to mine.
- loiter They don't work, they just loiter in the streets.
- doddle Finding something is a doddle when you know where it is.
By length
- 3 letters
- lag1
- 5 letters
- delay2, stall1, dolly2, tarry2
- 6 letters
- linger2, loiter2, doddle
- 8 letters
- lollygag
- 13 letters
- procrastinate4
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (delay2 = 2 syllables).