Dallying Synonyms and Antonyms

Behave carelessly or indifferently
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. trifling
  2. toying
  3. playing
  4. flirting
  5. teasing
Waste time
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. loitering
  2. trifling
  3. tarrying
  4. procrastinating
  5. idling
  6. lingering
  7. dawdling
  8. puttering
  9. vacillating
  10. trailing
  11. dragging
  12. toying
  13. sporting
  14. romping
  15. poking
  16. postponing
  17. playing
  18. delaying
  19. philandering
  20. dabbling
  21. lagging
  22. fooling
  23. fondling
  24. flirting
  25. dilly-dallying
  26. chatting
Antonyms:
  1. pushing
  2. rushing
  3. hastening
  4. hurrying
Talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. flirting
  2. trifling
  3. mashing
  4. philandering
  5. toying
  6. romancing
  7. coquetting
To consider or occupy oneself with something in a careless or unserious fashion; toy.
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. flirting

Dallying Sentence Examples

  • He was the giant of the new realist theater at a time when our West End was still dallying with drawing room comedies.

  • This recovery was due also to the forcible-feeble character of the Radical campaign against the House of Lords, the unpopularity of the Licensing Bill, the failure of the government to arrive at an education settlement, the incapacity of its Irish administration, its apparent domination by the "little navy" section, and its dallying with Socialism in the budget of 1909.

  • In a small town in Southern California, police arrested seven people who had stripped nude and began to act "mad" after dallying with a Ouija board.

  • A rising was organized for February 1831; but Francis got wind of it, and, repenting of his dangerous dallying with revolution, arrested Menotti and fled to Austrian territory with his prisoner.

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