Dilatory GRE Vocabulary Flashcard
/ˈdɪl.ə.tri/ (adj)
Definition
likely to cause delay and slow, sluggish, tardy, unhurried, sluggardly, dragging, intended to delay, laggard, procrastinating, slow-footed, lazy, delaying, slow-paced, behindhand, slow-going
Example
Dilatory tactics are often the main cause of undue delay. To prevent them, legal systems – regardless of time and place – have searched for appropriate solutions. In our opinion, to solve the problem adequately we have to scrutinize and analyze the whole process leading to the use of dilatory tactics in detail.
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Antonyms
Parts of speech
Noun: dilatoriness
Adverb: dilatorily
