Sentence examples for dilatoriness from inspiring English sources

"dilatoriness" is a correct and usable word in written English
It can be used to describe someone who is habitually tardy or slow to act. For example, "The dilatoriness of the employee resulted in a delay in the project's completion."

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dilatoriness

noun

The state or quality of being dilatory

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The Indians themselves complain about its dilatoriness in identifying lands they "traditionally occupy".

Although Basque separatists, boosted by the end of ETA's terrorism, and Catalan nationalists also did well, one lesson of the euro crisis applies also at home: too much splintering makes governing an economic union harder.For all Mr Zapatero's dilatoriness, Spain has taken more decisive action than Italy to tackle the budget deficit.

Nothing is known of his order of work, but all his contemporaries agreed that his methods dangerously, and sometimes fatally, slowed down a system of government already notorious for its dilatoriness.

What's so bizarre is that there is no business case for this dilatoriness.

Flanner suggests that it was Poe's dilatoriness both in funding the publication of Stein's unpublished work and in sending Toklas her monthly personal allowance of four hundred dollars that drove her to the rash act that precipitated the seizure of the paintings.

The Russians resent the pact and are also annoyed at the apparent dilatoriness in the negotiations for delimiting the frontier between Manchukuo and the Soviet.

During Franklin's decade and a half in London, Deborah appears not as a cherished wife and companion, but as a business partner who is sometimes scolded for dilatoriness.

Young Robson showed no such profligacy when Lennon's dilatoriness led to the chance with which he brought the home team level again.

In the event, it would be the visitors who would score, the goal stemming from a dilatoriness in defence of which the visitors were never guilty.

Girl goes to university, meets prince, is proposed to "after they had been friends for a very long time" – a sly sideswipe at HRH's dilatoriness?

The trauma of Oxford's encounter with what Blake described as Stirling's "incompetence, dilatoriness, casualness and general inefficiency" was enough to make it difficult for the Glasgow-born architect to build in this country for the next 20 years.

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