Waste-time Synonyms

Synonyms:
  1. burn daylight
  2. dally
  3. dawdle
  4. delay
  5. dillydally
  6. fiddle-about
  7. fritter away time
  8. goof off
  9. idle away time
  10. kill-time
  11. linger
  12. loiter
  13. lollygag
  14. lose time
  15. pass-the-time
  16. piddle
  17. procrastinate
  18. shilly-shally
  19. take one's own (sweet) time
  20. take-one-s-time
  21. tarry
  22. while away the time
Synonyms:
(Verb)
  1. malinger
  2. dawdle
  3. drift
  4. goof off
  5. skive (British)

Waste-time Sentence Examples

  • There is no way I'd waste time watching this drivel.

  • If you have a place for everything and everything in it's place, you won't waste time searching for things.

  • I would rather pay the extra cost than waste time trying to track down the obscure program faults that bad memory can cause.

  • If learning is difficult the learner will not want to waste time on tasks which appear irrelevant to their purpose.

  • He will not waste time upon triflers who deny what he thinks, in the light of the (empiricist!) Design argument, an absolutely clear truth.'

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