Adjective : a dilatory strategy. From Dictionary.com.
To them Tatius and the Sabines seemed to proceed somewhat dilatorily. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08] Reference
The Sofia government treated these advances dilatorily, and was already leaning to the Central Powers, which were prepared to promise whatever Bulgaria wanted, in view of the fact that Bulgarian aspirations were directed chiefly to Serbian and Greek territory. From Wordnik.com. [1914, Nov. 9] Reference
But, at length, it soared dilatorily up to Miss Adrian's ear. From Wordnik.com. [The Trimmed Lamp, and other Stories of the Four Million] Reference
He was dilatorily throwing up a piece of wood into the fire every now and then. From Wordnik.com. [The Return of the Native] Reference
Poets, of which he gives this account: 'Some time in March I finished the Lives of the Poets, which I wrote in my usual way, dilatorily and hastily, unwilling to work, and working with vigour and haste.'. From Wordnik.com. [Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood] Reference
Mr. Belmore presented the radiantly clean and peaceful aspect of the man who has risen at nine o'clock instead of the customary seven, and bathed and dressed in the sweet unhurried calm that belongs only to the first day of the week, poking dilatorily among chiffonier drawers, discovering hitherto forgotten garments in his closet, and leisurely fumbling over a change of shirt-studs before coming down to consume the breakfast kept waiting for him. From Wordnik.com. [The Happiest Time] Reference
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