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Dilly-dally

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Verb

1. dilly-dally, dillydally, drag one's feet, drag one's heels, procrastinate, shillyshally, stall

postpone doing what one should be doing

Example Sentences:
'He did not want to write the letter and procrastinated for days'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Dilly-dally

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verb -lies, -lying or -lied
(intransitive) informal
to loiter or vacillate

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Dilly-dally

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intr.v. dil·ly-dal·lied, dil·ly-dal·lying, dil·ly-dal·lies
To waste time, especially in indecision; dawdle or vacillate.

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