The word 'procrastinating' is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to refer to the act of putting off something that needs to be done, usually until a later time. For example, "John had been procrastinating for days before he finally submitted his essay."
The editor claims full responsibility for procrastinating over the post's production and publication, blaming his conception of time for the delay.
In a much-noticed essay in 2004, Sadik Al-Azm, a professor of philosophy at the University of Damascus, said the modern Arabs had become "the Hamlet of our times, doomed to unrelieved tragedy, forever hesitating, procrastinating and wavering between the old and the new".
As the Communist Party prepares for an imminent leadership change it is more than usually anxious to keep the AIDS scandal quiet".The government is procrastinating, covering up and clamping down," says an activist who joined the protest in the provincial capital, Zhengzhou, on August 27th.
And create a to-do list to fool yourself into doing your second-most-important job while procrastinating over the most important one.This sounds too clever by half.
It will be a pity for the country if the only serious restraint on its actions comes from dissenting Tory and Lib Dem MPs and street protesters.Mr Miliband has resorted to a classic, procrastinating political ploy, namely to set up a review of party policy.
One reason Republican candidates may be procrastinating, pundits reason, is to wait and see whether Mr Obama's situation is more like Mr Reagan's or Mr Carter's.A few mooted contenders have already ruled themselves out of the race.
Witness the barrage of procrastinating policy reviews that he unleashes in every speech; unsurprisingly, more were set up this week, after the tragicomic loss of two doomsday discs by the revenue and customs service (HMRC).
Omniscient politicians should be able to predict that the climatologist's prediction will be wrong; some may cut costs by procrastinating, others may bite the ecological bullet.
But, as Dr Brown suggests, by embracing the fact that everyone can be vulnerable it can become easier to reassess why you are procrastinating.
Fear not, procrastinating students; there is still time.
If you're procrastinating while revising a certain subject, study something else for a bit or take a break completely.
