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[ UK /dˈɪlətəɹˌi/ ]
[ US /ˈdɪɫəˌtɔɹi/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. wasting time

How To Use dilatory In A Sentence

  • Once wide awake, even enterprising, they slowly become dilatory, leaden, slow, laggard, and lumpish.
  • During states of ineffective arterial volume, local production of vasodilatory prostanoids and kinins in the kidney offsets the decrease in renal blood flow and helps maintain the glomerular filtration rate.
  • By precedent, the Senate could make such quorum calls dilatory at any time, if no substantive business had intervened since a quorum had been previously established. www): The Volokh Conspiracy
  • Yours truly, John H. Morrison Whitfield, Ontario Monday, July 18, 1938 Dear Evelyn, Forgive a dilatory correspondent. 52449_CLARA
  • To be fair, the response of the English public has been as magnificent as that observed here and elsewhere, but the response of the Government has, at the very least, been dilatory.
  • Not surprisingly, for connoisseurs of media history, the prime optic of this dilatory policy exercise has been censorship.
  • These dilatory strategies on the intellectual property front, indeed, can ruin the biodiversity richness of the country.
  • He said the decision was made in view of what they called dilatory tactics being employed by the lawyers.
  • When he and Margaret had left, Henrietta began in a dilatory way to stack the dishwasher and tidy the flat. THY BROTHER DEATH
  • Lord Furnival is getting a little crotchety over my dilatory ways. PASSION IN THE PEAK
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