Crossword-Solution: DILATORY 8 letters, 44 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

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Word Word Type Definition
Dilatory a. Inclined to defer or put off what ought to be done at
once; given the procrastination; delaying; procrastinating; loitering;
as, a dilatory servant.
Dilatory a. Marked by procrastination or delay; tardy; slow;
sluggish; -- said of actions or measures.

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DILATORY anagram ADROITLY, IDOLATRY

We have 44 clues for the answer “DILATORY”

Clue Answers
tending or intended to waste time 1 answer
distinguished by length 1 answer
Causing delays 1 answer
Dragging feet 1 answer
Tending to postpone or delay 1 answer
Tending to delay or postpone 1 answer
TIME wasting 1 answer
Late in acting 1 answer
Slow; tardy 1 answer
Slow to act 2 answers
Causing a delay 2 answers
Causing delay 2 answers
TENDING to delay 3 answers
Dragging one's feet 3 answers
Tending to procrastinate 3 answers
drawn out 5 answers
Wasting time 5 answers
Unpunctual 6 answers
Fabian 6 answers
NEVER on time 7 answers
BEHIND time 9 answers
Slowed 21 answers
Dilly-dallying 22 answers
languorous 23 answers
Overdue 30 answers
DEFERRED ___ 31 answers
Held (up) 32 answers
Delayed 32 answers
COMING late 33 answers
Behindhand. 34 answers
postponed 35 answers
procrastinating 41 answers
lingering 43 answers
Tardy 49 answers
Delaying 51 answers
Slothful 53 answers
Leisurely 54 answers
belated 56 answers
tarrying 58 answers
gradual 61 answers
Unhurried 61 answers
Loitering. 64 answers
Dawdling 69 answers
Slow 81 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EATRE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with DILATORY (5)

Jervis Pendleton will arrive shortly." Even up here in our dilatory Dutchess County the breeze smells green.
Dear Enemy Jean Webster 1995
Summoned to town by the arrival in England of her husband’s mother, she left without giving Darrow the chance he had counted on, and he cursed himself for a dilatory blunderer.
The Reef Edith Wharton 1995
The newspapers not only printed long accounts of Jaggers's triumphal progress from New York to Chicago and back again, but used the success of his undertaking as a text for many editorials against the dilatory methods of our foreign-mail service.
Adventures and Letters Richard Harding Davis 2008
Pit and gallery were already packed with a throng, tense, expectant and alert, that waited for the rise of the curtain with the eager patience of a terrier watching a dilatory human prepare for outdoor exercises.
The Unbearable Bassington Saki 2013
But he did not define to himself the nature of the work, and he sat very still, and willingly dilatory, under the fearsome oppression of his call.
An Outcast of the Islands Joseph Conrad 2006

Quotes with DILATORY (2)

Maximus was my model for self-control, fixity of purpose, and cheerfulness under ill-health or other misfortunes. His character was an admirable combination of dignity and charm, and all the duties of his station were performed quietly and without fuss. He gave everyone the conviction that he spoke as he believed, and acted as he judged right. Bewilderment or timidity were unknown to him; he was never hasty, never dilatory; nothing found him at a loss. He indulged neither in …
Marcus Aurelius Meditations
The patience of the American public with dilatory diplomatic delays will be very limited.
Tom Lantos
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Appears in: LAT, Newsday, NYT, Onion, Three Across, USA TODAY, WSJ.

Used 11 times in crossword archives (1950–2021).