Crossword-Solution: TARDY
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Tardy | superl. | Moving with a slow pace or motion; slow; not swift. |
| Tardy | superl. | Not being inseason; late; dilatory; -- opposed to prompt; as, to be tardy in one's payments. |
| Tardy | superl. | Unwary; unready. |
| Tardy | superl. | Criminal; guilty. |
| Tardy | v. t. | To make tardy. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
|---|---|---|
| TARDY | anagram | TRAYD |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TAERE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with TARDY (5)
From hence the low murmur of his pupils’ voices, conning over their lessons, might be heard in a drowsy summer’s day, like the hum of a beehive; interrupted now and then by the authoritative voice of the master, in the tone of menace or command, or, peradventure, by the appalling sound of the birch, as he urged some tardy loiterer along the flowery path of knowledge.
But this was as it should be: were not the people now the rulers of France? Every aristocrat was a traitor, as his ancestors had been before him: for two hundred years now the people had sweated, and toiled, and starved, to keep a lustful court in lavish extravagance; now the descendants of those who had helped to make those courts brilliant had to hide for their lives—to fly, if they wished to avoid the tardy vengeance of the people.
God! What cruel and malign fate had worked to such a frightful end! What devious chain of circumstances had led my boy to my side at this one particular minute of our lives when I could strike him down and kill him, in ignorance of his identity! A benign though tardy Providence blurred my vision and my mind as I sank into unconsciousness across the lifeless body of my only son.
Blacks, to the contrary, viewed these concessions as the tardy surrender of rights which should have been theirs all along.
And now--” “Alas, my dear friends,” I would strike in here, waving towards them an ascetic hand--one of the emaciated sort, that lets the light shine through at the finger-tips--“Alas, you come too late! This conduct is fitting and meritorious on your part, and indeed I always expected it of you, sooner or later; but the die is cast, and you may go home again and bewail at your leisure this too tardy repentance of yours.
Quotes with TARDY (3)
Love moderately. Long love doth so. Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.*Love each other in moderation. That is the key to long-lasting love. Too fast is as bad as too slow.*
I have outlasted all desire, My dreams and I have grown apart; My grief alone is left entire, The gleamings of an empty heart. The storms of ruthless dispensation Have struck my flowery garland numb, I live in lonely desolation And wonder when my end will come. Thus on a naked tree-limb, blasted By tardy winter's whistling chill, A single leaf which has outlasted Its season will be trembling still.
I shrugged. “Actually, I didn’t tell her much of anything. She must’ve put two and two together all on her own and come up with you being a jerk face.” His gaze slid back to me and he grinned. “Ouch, shortie.”“Yeah, like that really bothered you.” I glanced back through the small window in the door that led to bio. Mr. Tucker was already at his desk — was Mrs. Cleo ever coming back? — and we only had a minute, tops, before the tardy bell rang. “What did you want?” Reaching in…
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Slate, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 109 times in crossword archives (1957–2025).