Word of the Day

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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 10

Dilatory

[DIL-ə-tohr-ee]Part of speech: adjective

Origin: latin, 15th century

• Intending to cause delay
• Wasting time or procrastinating

Examples of Dilatory in a sentence

• His client was late, so the lawyer pulled out dilatory tactics to stall.
• Cleaning his room was just a dilatory effort to avoid studying.

About Dilatory

Surely you’re familiar with procrastination. Maybe you’re even learning new words as a method of procrastination. Now you can feel good about your delays because you’ve learned a new adjective for these tricks — dilatory.

Did you Know?

You might think the definitions of "dilatory" and "delay" are similar, but there’s actually no etymological relation between the two. Instead, "dilatory" can be traced to the Latin "dilatorius," meaning "extending or putting off time."

Comments

[mrua7.livejournal.com]

"Honestly Napoleon," Illya's voice was full of exasperation. "Your dilatorious attempts at avoiding your paperwork are astounding. You are CEA and are expected to be organized and stay on top of things.'

"I do."

"How is that?"

"I'm very prompt when it comes to asking you to help me with my reports, aren't I?"

"I will not even dignify that with an eye roll."

"I'll buy you dinner for the next week if you finish it up for my?" Solo flashed his most charming, and disarming smile.

"Fine! That is another of your dilatory tactics that manages to work every time. How is that Napoleon?"

"I find a person's weakness and exploit it, like any good spy." He winked..

[laurose8.livejournal.com]

True, true...And I do like "I will not even dignify that with an eye roll.".

[mrua7.livejournal.com]

Thank you ! :D

[pfrye.livejournal.com]

Napoleon Solo was visiting with the ladies of the translation department. He was sitting on the corner of Susan's desk holding court. All the ladies gathered around him listening to his most recent adventure. He was enjoying each gasp, coo and comment hoping to parlay his visit into several dates. He was interrupted by his communicator. Smiling at his audience he said "Duty calls my lovelies" then cringed as Mr. Waverly's voice responded "The "lovelies" will have to wait Mr. Solo, enough of your dilatory actions, report to my office immediately."

[laurose8.livejournal.com]

A nice, solid scene; and he probably did get enough date to make that worth it.