dawdlesome

comparative more dawdlesome · superlative most dawdlesome

1. Characterised or marked by dawdling.

   Mrs Parsons was as brisk as her husband was dawdlesome, and as plump and perky as he was slow.

   2002, Barbara Euphan Todd, Worzel Gummidge

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   By setting the timer for short increments (5 to 15 minutes) for the duration of any potentially dawdlesome task— phone calls, filing, sorting through piles of paper—Chaos Creators can gain a more realistic sense of the limits of their time (and perhaps other people's, too).

   2000, Harriet Schechter, Conquering Chaos at Work

   “Sure don't see Ms. Allsbury's group? Probably moved on to their second observation. Less dawdlesome than us. Anyhow! We can conference right here. So? How about if you started us off? Mr. Besserian?”

   2010, Bill Blanchet, The Reform Plan