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Definition of Dillydallying
1. dillydally [v] - See also: dillydally
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dillydallying
Literary usage of Dillydallying
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Teachers College Record by Columbia University. Teachers College (1900)
"... virtue of their agreement with him was withheld by private dillydallying and
excuses; and at the most critical period, with an enemy in Caesar's front, ..."
2. A History of Suffrage in the United States by Kirk Harold Porter (1918)
"There was no dillydallying through the various stages of personal-property
alternatives. The disorder resulting in this sudden change is known to history as ..."
3. Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science by Johns Hopkins University, Herbert Baxter Adams (1897)
"... of the ministry, dillydallying with half-measures; the populace of Paris,
goaded on by hunger and ever ready to break forth into deeds of violence; ..."
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