dilatoriness

  • 41inexcusable delay — I noun default, dereliction, dilatoriness, disregard, failure of duty, indifference, inobservance, lack of diligence, laggardness, laxity, laxness, malfeasance, neglect, neglectfulness, negligence, noncompliance, nonfeasance, nonobservance,… …

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  • 42undue delay — I noun culpability, default, delay, dereliction, dilatoriness, disregard, dutilessness, impropriety, inattention, indifference, laches, laxity, neglect, neglectfulness, negligence, noncompliance, nonobservance, nonperformance, peccadillo,… …

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  • 43wait — I verb abide, await, be patient, bear with composure, bide, continue, defer, delay, discontinue, extend, forbear, halt, hesitate, linger, loiter, mark time, pause, postpone, procrastinate, prorogate, protract, put off, remain, remand, reserve,… …

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  • 44dalliance — Synonyms and related words: amorous dalliance, amorous looks, billing and cooing, bundling, caressing, come hither look, coquetry, coquettish glances, coquettishness, coyness, cuddling, dabbling, dallying, dawdling, dilatoriness, dillydallying,… …

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  • 45dallying — Synonyms and related words: Micawberish, backward, coquetry, dabbling, dalliance, dawdling, delaying, dilatoriness, dilatory, dillydallying, dolce far niente, dragging, easygoing, fiddling, flirtation, fooling, fooling around, foot dragging,… …

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  • 46dawdling — Synonyms and related words: dalliance, dallying, delaying, dilatoriness, dilatory, dillydallying, dolce far niente, dragging, goofing off, idling, lag, lagging, lazing, lingering, loafing, loitering, lolling, lollygagging, lounging, mopery,… …

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  • 47hesitation — Synonyms and related words: Fabian policy, Micawberism, abeyance, averseness, backwardness, balbuties, bashfulness, boggle, boggling, break, caesura, calculation, canniness, capriciousness, care, careful consideration, carefulness, caution,… …

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  • 48indolence — Synonyms and related words: a wise passiveness, abeyance, apathy, catalepsy, catatonia, cautiousness, circumspection, contemplation, contemplative life, creeping, deadliness, deathliness, deliberateness, deliberation, dilatoriness, do nothing… …

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  • 49inertia — Synonyms and related words: a wise passiveness, abeyance, apathy, catalepsy, catatonia, cautiousness, circumspection, contemplation, contemplative life, creeping, deadliness, deathliness, deliberateness, deliberation, dilatoriness, do nothing… …

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  • 50lag — Synonyms and related words: afterthought, antedate, arrest, be found wanting, bind, block, blockage, bureaucratic delay, cast out, check, closing, collapse, come short, con, concluding, confine, dalliance, dally, dallying, dawdle, dawdling, dead… …

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