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Another word for tardy

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Adjective

  1. Not being on time

    See also:

    time

  2. Proceeding at a rate less than usual or desired

    Idioms:
    See also:

    fast

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Another word for tardy

Modifier
  1. See also:

    slow

    late

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Sentence Examples

  • I was tardy in keeping him informed, especially concerning Julie, now a sort-of member of our group.

  • in 1559, and is said to have secured for the poet a tardy pension.

  • had resolved on the rehabilitation of Joan of Arc, thus rendering a tardy recognition of her services.

  • Four years after the fall of Ottakar he obtained from the princes a tardy and reluctant assent to the granting of Austria, Styria and Carniola to his own sons, Rudolph and Albert.

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