Crossword-Solution: DALLIES 7 letters, 7 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

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DALLIES anagram DISALLE, SALLIED

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Acts or moves slowly 1 answer
Is in no hurry to decide 1 answer
Fails to act 2 answers
Lollygags 5 answers
Loiters 6 answers
Wastes time 6 answers
Trifles 18 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETAER
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with DALLIES (5)

Mark it, Cesario, it is old and plain; The spinsters and the knitters in the sun, And the free maids, that weave their thread with bones Do use to chant it: it is silly sooth, And dallies with the innocence of love Like the old age.
Twelfth Night William Shakespeare 1998
From the moment his eye lights upon a luckless family group embarked on the same steamer with himself, the sight of his accustomed quarry--vulgarity, imbecility, and affectation--reanimates his relaxed sinews, and, playfully fastening his satiric fangs upon the familiar prey, he dallies with it in mimic ferocity like a satiated mouser.
The Christmas Books William Makepeace Thackeray 2006
One reason why the scholar does not make the world of the past, the world of books, real to his fellows and serviceable to them, is that it is not real to himself, but a mere unsubstantial place of intellectual idleness, where he dallies some years before he begins his task in life.
What is Your Culture to Me Charles Dudley Warner 2004
Stewart only; and that to the leaving of all business in the world, and to the open slighting of the Queene; that he values not who sees him or stands by him while he dallies with her openly; and then privately in her chamber below, where the very sentrys observe his going in and out; and that so commonly, that the Duke or any of the nobles, when they would ask where the King is, they will ordinarily say, "Is the King above, or below?" meaning with Mrs.
Diary of Samuel Pepys, January/February 1663/64 Samuel Pepys 2004
Stewart only; and that to the leaving of all business in the world, and to the open slighting of the Queene; that he values not who sees him or stands by him while he dallies with her openly; and then privately in her chamber below, where the very sentrys observe his going in and out; and that so commonly, that the Duke or any of the nobles, when they would ask where the King is, they will ordinarily say, “Is the King above, or below?” meaning with Mrs.
Diary of Samuel Pepys, Complete Samuel Pepys 2003

Quotes with DALLIES (2)

Words are Hamlet's constant companions, his weapons, and his defenses. ... And yet, words also serve as Hamlet's prison. He analyzes and examines every nuance of his situation until he has exhausted every angle. They cause him to be indecisive. He dallies in his own wit, intoxicated by the mix of words he can concoct; he frustrates his own burning desire to be more like his father, the Hyperion. When he says that Claudius is "... no more like my father than I to Hercules" he …
Carla Lynn Stockton Cliffs Notes on Shakespeare's Hamlet
When decisions on nuclear power stations and runways are delayed and the government dilly-dallies, people think they aren't important.
James Dyson
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Appears in: Chronicle, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, WSJ.

Used 12 times in crossword archives (1982–2023).