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was loitering
verb
To stand about without any aim or purpose; to stand about idly; to linger; to hang around.
Exact(47)
Larry Johnson was loitering on the perimeter, all alone again.
The report said the boy was loitering for the purposes of gambling.
The city tried to have the complaint dismissed on the grounds that Mr. Jackson was loitering.
As usual, I was loitering around the courtroom, pretending to be busy.
Sterling was loitering a few rows further back and David Silva absent altogether.
Just the other week, I was loitering in Logan when a woman called my name.
Similar(13)
You're loitering.
We're loitering outside of Kuma's.
"It has just been loitering in Canada," he said.
The darker your skin, the more likely you are to be loitering.
If you spend more than twenty minutes with the three-floor extravaganza, you're loitering.
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