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dawdler

/dawd-l/US // ˈdɔd l //UK // (ˈdɔːdəl) //

颟顸的人,颟顸者,颟顸,颟顸无知

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Definitions

v.无主动词 verb
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    daw·dled, daw·dling.

    • : to waste time; idle; trifle; loiter: Stop dawdling and help me with these packages!
    • : to move slowly, languidly, or dilatorily; saunter.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    daw·dled, daw·dling.

    • : to waste by or as if by trifling: He dawdled away the whole morning.

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Examples

  • But he knows that he is just a dawdler compared to Chomsky, the great big mindbender.

  • He had been called a dawdler and a trifler and a do-nothing.

  • The pinch of necessity had come at last: the world no longer offered him the life of an elegant dawdler.

  • Indeed, I was a confirmed dawdler almost before I was able to think or act for myself.

  • And a weakling, a dawdler like himself, must reply to a hero like that!

  • You were never meant to become a cynical dawdler in a country house.