Adjective : a dilatory strategy. From Dictionary.com.
It is thus that provincial dilatoriness, which is so freely ridiculed in Paris, is full of treachery, secret stabs, hidden victories and defeats. From Wordnik.com. [The Fortune of the Rougons] Reference
Government, by the dilatoriness and prejudices of its. From Wordnik.com. [First footsteps in East Africa] Reference
Austrian intrigue and dilatoriness were alike criticized. From Wordnik.com. [New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 5, August, 1915] Reference
But posts like this one make me re-examine my dilatoriness. From Wordnik.com. [No Mow « Fairegarden] Reference
Want of water, scarcity of provisions, the lazy dilatoriness of the. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 38, December, 1860] Reference
In your Manilian property I came across Diphilus outdoing himself in dilatoriness. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 The Whole Extant Correspodence in Chronological Order] Reference
Sicilian Expedition, 415-413 B.C. He was much blamed for dilatoriness and indecision. From Wordnik.com. [The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2] Reference
Once the mosquitoes hit, the cow's dilatoriness became almost more than Newt could endure. From Wordnik.com. [Lonesome Dove]
Perhaps the dilatoriness of the "artist" who mounted my first specimens had a stimulating effect. From Wordnik.com. [Home Taxidermy for Pleasure and Profit A Guide for Those Who Wish to Prepare and Mount Animals, Birds, Fish, Reptiles, etc., for Home, Den, or Office Decoration] Reference
Moreover, there was a certain natural dilatoriness in the king, which was taken by many for clemency. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans] Reference
There was another pause; the proverbial dilatoriness of watched pots was never more clearly exemplified. From Wordnik.com. [Wessex Tales] Reference
By degrees I found myself tiptoeing nearer Karl, whether owing to my own eagerness or his dilatoriness I cannot now say. From Wordnik.com. [Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine]
Short, whose dilatoriness in executing his work doubtless prolonged by a few years the existence of the terrestrial globe. From Wordnik.com. [A Girl Among the Anarchists] Reference
She was laboriously typing at a speed which could have explained Maggie Hewson's strictures about the firm's dilatoriness. From Wordnik.com. [She Closed Her Eyes] Reference
Thanks to his habitual dilatoriness he had put it off from year to year, always nursing the intention, shirking the effort. From Wordnik.com. [Ultima Thule] Reference
We are exhibiting the same dilatoriness which we exhibited then, and we shall be fortunate if we escape the same consequences. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 348] Reference
The dilatoriness of that august body is so legendary that all present would be long retired-or worse-before a decision is made. From Wordnik.com. [Seawitch]
His dilatoriness had made many of the Pretender's friends uneasy, and showed too plainly that he had been playing a double game. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume II.] Reference
The loyal inhabitants are boiling with indignation, declaring themselves sacrificed, as usual, by the dilatoriness of the Government. From Wordnik.com. [From Capetown to Ladysmith An Unfinished Record of the South African War] Reference
Enquiries about the British troops, their movements, their dilatoriness, were sternly renewed; it was reckoned time to "clear the border.". From Wordnik.com. [The Siege of Kimberley] Reference
The winter, however, was spent cheerfully; and although the spring was uncommonly late, when it came its beauty compensated for its dilatoriness. From Wordnik.com. [Frankenstein] Reference
The winter, however, was spent cheerfully; and although the spring was uncommonly late, when it came, its beauty compensated for its dilatoriness. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 5] Reference
Sir Colin Campbell, and those who accused him of "indecision, dilatoriness, and wasting the best of the cold weather" could not have known how little he deserved their censure. From Wordnik.com. [Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief] Reference
His first sergeant, a nervous and a nervy little man too, for Detroit has seen the Croix de Guerre he won, showed anxiety over the dilatoriness of the men in loading the sleighs. From Wordnik.com. [The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919] Reference
The dilatoriness of the campaign was exasperating. From Wordnik.com. [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference
He had, however, the one fault common to all his tribe, that of dilatoriness. From Wordnik.com. [The Dew of Their Youth] Reference
Brandenburg claims, and was charged with excuses for the dilatoriness of his master. From Wordnik.com. [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference
But to-day the court found nothing so grave as the strange dilatoriness of the counsel. From Wordnik.com. [The Ear in the Wall] Reference
There was no cowardly feeling, but perhaps a little dilatoriness in getting into the first sledge. From Wordnik.com. [A Daughter of Raasay A Tale of the '45] Reference
He meant to prevent the aggrandizement of Austria, and was impatient at the dilatoriness and distrust of the princes. From Wordnik.com. [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference
At first I used mentally to accuse my correspondents of great dilatoriness in attending to notes that called for an immediate reply. From Wordnik.com. [America To-day, Observations and Reflections] Reference
Then, with much vehemence of language, and manifestations of ill-temper, she expressed her displeasure at the dilatoriness of the States. From Wordnik.com. [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference
Here was a rare opportunity for fighting in retreat being thrown away, as Washington conceived, by Lee's dilatoriness in reënforcing him. From Wordnik.com. [The Campaign of Trenton 1776-77] Reference
She was angry with the Prussians for dilatoriness, and with the French for inaction, and she poured out her English spleen on her boarders. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Wives' Tale] Reference
The dilatoriness of the Sovereign placed the Regent in a frightful dilemma, but it was sufficiently obvious that the struggle could not long be deferred. From Wordnik.com. [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference
Such a war as ours carried on by my Lord Hardwicke, with the dull dilatoriness of a Chancery suit, would long ago have reduced us to what suits in Chancery reduce most people!. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 2] Reference
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