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dallyingadjective moving or proceeding at less than the normal, desirable, or required speedthe dallying diners seemed oblivious to the fact that other customers were impatiently waiting for tables crawling, creeping, dawdling, dilatory, dillydallying, dragging, laggard, lagging, languid, leisurely, poking, poky(or pokey), slow, sluggish, snail-paced, snaillike, tardy, unhurried deliberate, measuredinactive, inert, lethargic, loafing, lounginglingering, loitering, tarryingambling, heavy-footed, inching, plodding, shuffling, slow-footedstrollingdecelerating, slowingfilibustering, procrastinating, stalling barreling, bolting, breakneck, breathless, brisk, careering, dizzy, fast, fleet, flying, hasty, hurrying, lightning, meteoric, quick, racing, rapid, rocketing, running, rushing, scooting, scudding, scurrying, snappy, speeding, speedy, swift, warp-speed, whirling, whirlwind, whisking, zipping expeditious, prompt, readyaccelerated, hastened, quickenedhurried, rushed dallyingverbpresent participle of dallyto engage in activity for amusementhe spent his college years dallying, seemingly determined to acquire as little knowledge as possible disporting, frolicking, playing, recreating, rollicking, skylarking, sporting, toying cavorting, frisking, gamboling(or gambolling), rompingdabbling, triflingamusing, diverting, entertainingdelighting, pleasingdabbling, fiddling (around), messing around, puttering (around)bumming (around), dawdling, goldbricking, hanging, hanging about(British), idling, loafing, lounging (around or about), relaxing, resting, screwing around, slacking (off)jesting, joking, teasing drudging, laboring, plodding, plugging (away), slaving, straining, striving, struggling, sweating, toiling, working to move or act slowlydon't dally on the way to the interview crawling, creeping, dawdling, delaying, diddling, dillydallying, dragging, lagging, lingering, loitering, lollygagging(also lallygagging), moping, poking, shilly-shallying, tarrying fiddling (around), fooling around, messing around, monkeying (around), playing, pottering (around), puttering (around), triflinghanging (around or out), idling, loafing, lolling, loungingambling, easing, inching, lumbering, plodding, sauntering, shuffling, staggering, strollingdecelerating, slowing (down or up)filibustering, procrastinating, stalling, temporizing dragging one's feet(also dragging one's heels), dropping behind, falling behind, hanging fire, marking time, taking one's time barreling(or barrelling), bolting, careering, coursing, dashing, flying, hastening, hotfooting (it), hurrying, racing, ripping, rocketing, running, rushing, scooting, scudding, scurrying, speeding, tearing, whirling, whisking, whizzing, zipping bowling, breezing, darting, humping, hurtling, hustling, scrambling, stampedinggalloping, jogging, running, sprinting, trottingaccelerating, quickening, speeding (up)catching up, fast-forwarding, outpacing, outrunning, outstripping, overtaking to show a sexual attraction for someone just for funshe spent the summer dallying with a guy renting the neighboring beach house coquetting, flirting, frivoling(or frivolling), messing around, toying, trifling vampingcourting, mashing, wooingjoshing, kidding, putting on, razzing, ribbing, teasingfooling, leading on, stringing alongmanipulating, playing (with) to spend time doing nothingI kept dallying at my desk until I couldn't put off doing my work any longer bumming, chilling, dawdling, dillydallying, droning, footling, goofing (off), hacking (around), hanging about(British), hanging (around or out), idling, kicking around, kicking back, lazing, lazying, loafing, lolling, lounging, vegging out fiddling (around), fooling, messing, monkeying, mucking, piddling, playing, pottering (around), puttering (around), triflingdozing, estivating(also aestivating), hibernatinglagging, lingering, loitering, poking, relaxing, resting, tarryingambling, moseying, sauntering, strolling, swanningfurloughing, goldbricking, malingering, truanting killing time, twiddling one's thumbs drudging, grinding, grubbing, humping, hustling, laboring, moiling, pegging, plodding, plowing, plugging, slaving, sweating, toiling, travailing, workingapplying, buckling (down)exerting, putting out |