dally
to waste time or act without urgency
Dally in a sentence
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Do not dally on the way home, since dinner is nearly ready.
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The treaty was hailed as a triumph of diplomacy, yet historians now regard its terms as blank, since they merely postponed the conflicts they claimed to resolve.
More GRE words starting with D
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