VERB
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postpone doing what one should be doing
He did not want to write the letter and procrastinated for days
How To Use dilly-dally In A Sentence
- It's never too early to start loitering, and dilly-dallying.
- When she emerged - and she never took long, for she wasn't one to dilly-dally - I would step into the hall so that she would see me there waiting and wouldn't be frightened.
- Oh, do tell me you've not wasted my father's money by spending all of your days dilly-dallying with poetry, rather than studying!
- Sooner or later, we explode with it — in the form of anger toward our spouse, who comes dilly-dallying in after a day of adult interaction, interaction with people WHO WILL LISTEN. The Other Side Of Anger | Her Bad Mother
- Yet all we are hearing here, in her fourth year as Minister, is all this delay and dilly-dallying and shilly-shallying.
- With long delays in setting up the green investment bank, further dilly-dallying over when it will be able to function as a proper bank, and a green leal project to insulate homes with no sense of direction, we've had a year of delays and broken promises. UK slips down global green investment rankings
- We get detentions and suspensions for dilly-dallying like that, why shouldn't teachers?
- We were thankful for the time bought for us to dilly-dally.
- He would push us to resolution and not dilly-dally around, as though someone else needed to help the children and the aged, the orphans and the widowed. Donna Schaper: A Jesus Look At The Issues Du Jour
- Words like that are called reduplicates and some of my favorites (found here, scroll down to the bottom) include dilly-dally, fuddy-duddy, higgledy-piggledy, hurly-burly, and namby-pamby.
