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dawdlingadjective moving or proceeding at less than the normal, desirable, or required speedthe dawdling pace of the movie was really making us restless crawling, creeping, dallying, 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 dawdlingverbpresent participle of dawdleto move or act slowlyif you continue to dawdle, we'll be late for sure crawling, creeping, dallying, 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 spend time doing nothingaccused the city council of dawdling even as the crime rate was spiraling out of control bumming, chilling, dallying, 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 |