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dawdle

verb

To spend time idly and unfruitfully, to waste time.

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"dawdle" is a correct and usable word in written English. You can use it to mean "to move or act slowly or without hurry", as in: I spent the morning dawdling in the park and didn't get any work done.

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Five days, maybe six or seven if you dawdle, and in what feels like no time you'll be at the other end, in the pub, brimming with beer and achievement.

Having made your choice, dawdle on your way to the checkout page.

The result is not just that universities are starved of cash, but that students often dawdle pointlessly over their courses.Michael Burda, an economics professor at Humboldt University in Berlin, says that, because his students are not paying personally, many "just use university as a way of filling in time".

Typically, a man kills a neighbour in a dispute over land, the police dawdle over their investigation, the victim's family loses patience and kills the murderer or, more often, an innocent relation in retaliation.

The AU says it may consider sending more.While western countries dawdle, this may be all the peacekeeping Darfur will get.

Should Congressional Democrats dawdle on something, it's hard to imagine Mr Obama twisting arms and taking names, though Joe Biden seems to have signed up for a bit of LBJ duty during this interview with a 5th grader.

It vents much of its displeasure on the bank-restructuring agency, which continues to dawdle.

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