Meanings
adverbunpromptly (comparative more unpromptly, superlative most unpromptly)
comparative more unpromptly · superlative most unpromptly
- Without promptness; after a delay.
No matter how promptly or unpromptly we enact the budget, you simply cannot get those three sets of numbers working simultaneously, and the deficit is quite sensitive now to some of those numbers. So you cannot have it all three ways at once.
1989, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means, The Budget Deficit, page 478
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unpromptly. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unpromptly
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“unpromptly.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unpromptly. Accessed November 4, 2026.
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