Crossword-Solution: LOITERING 9 letters, 53 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

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Word Word Type Definition
Loitering p. pr. & vb. n. of Loiter

We have 53 clues for the answer “LOITERING”

Clue Answers
Just hanging around 2 answers
Police-blotter entry 4 answers
staying 5 answers
Hanging around 5 answers
Going nowhere 14 answers
straggling 20 answers
Slowed 21 answers
very last 21 answers
sprawling 21 answers
Dilly-dallying 22 answers
Trailing 28 answers
Overdue 30 answers
DEFERRED ___ 31 answers
Delayed 32 answers
Held (up) 32 answers
slowness 33 answers
dilatory 33 answers
torpidity 34 answers
Behindhand. 34 answers
postponed 35 answers
ACEDIA 35 answers
orderless 40 answers
Waiting? 40 answers
PASSIVE state 40 answers
procrastinating 41 answers
lingering 43 answers
measured 44 answers
Doing nothing 46 answers
Procrastination. 49 answers
Tardy 49 answers
Delaying 51 answers
Leisurely 54 answers
Doldrums 54 answers
impassivity 56 answers
belated 56 answers
drowsiness 58 answers
Thoughtlessness? 59 answers
unconcern 59 answers
dullness 61 answers
languorousness 61 answers
Indolence 62 answers
slothfulness 62 answers
Laziness 64 answers
Passivity 65 answers
Hiatus 65 answers
AFTER ___ 66 answers
Put off 66 answers
Torpor 66 answers
Listlessness 66 answers
Languor 66 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TEEAR
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with LOITERING (5)

The schoolhouse being deserted soon fell to decay, and was reported to be haunted by the ghost of the unfortunate pedagogue and the plowboy, loitering homeward of a still summer evening, has often fancied his voice at a distance, chanting a melancholy psalm tune among the tranquil solitudes of Sleepy Hollow.
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Washington Irving 1992
Thea, loitering on the stool, reached for a tattered book she had taken off the music-rest when she sat down.
The Song of the Lark Willa Cather 1992
The villagers began to gather, loitering a moment in the vestibule to converse in whispers about the sad event.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 1993
When the vehicle had disappeared, she allowed herself still another loitering moment; for the patched figure of good Uncle Venner was now visible, coming slowly from the head of the street downward, with a rheumatic limp, because the east wind had got into his joints.
The House of the Seven Gables Nathaniel Hawthorne 1993
Consequently, another drawer, and two porters, and several maids and the landlady, were all loitering by accident at various points of the road between the Concord and the coffee-room, when a gentleman of sixty, formally dressed in a brown suit of clothes, pretty well worn, but very well kept, with large square cuffs and large flaps to the pockets, passed along on his way to his breakfast.
A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens 1994

Quotes with LOITERING (3)

Trees are corrupting our parks. They should be arrested for loitering. For deciduous trees, add littering and indecent exposure to that list of offenses.
Bauvard Some Inspiration for the Overenthusiastic
Only then, as she prepared to cross the avenue, did she again spot the man in the fedora hat. He was at the opposite side of the street from where he’d stood before, but the caramel color of his coat was unmistakable. He was loitering in front of what looked like a Ford V8 parked nose-up on the sidewalk. Florence adjusted her shawl over her shoulders and crossed to the opposite corner of the plaza. When she turned back to look again, he was gone
Sana Krasikov
Airplane Dream #13' told the story, more or less, of a dream Rosa had had about the end of the world. There were no human beings left but her, and she had found herself flying in a pink seaplane to an island inhabited by sentient lemurs. There seemed to be a lot more to it -- there was a kind of graphic "sound track" constructed around images relating to Peter Tchaikovsky and his works, and of course abundant food imagery -- but this was, as far as Joe could tell, the gist. T…
Michael Chabon The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
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Appears in: LAT, Newsday, NYT.

Used 4 times in crossword archives (1972–2016).