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View definitions for dallying

dallying

adjective as in flirtatious

adjective as in flirty

adjective as in loafing

Strong matches

noun as in coquetry

Strong matches

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Example Sentences

It seemed incredible that Marian and Allen should be abroad together in this dallying fashion.

He was among the fleetest, and after some coy dallying he stood still until the athletic Sioux came beside him.

If I have this type of person sized up correctly, none of them would be dallying on the stairs.

Here we are frightened at names, dilly-dallying and quarreling over idle words, when a tremendous crisis calls for acts.

Jennifer came alive with a start, leaping up with a malediction between his teeth upon our dallying.

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On this page you'll find 211 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to dallying, such as: backward, behindhand, delaying, deliberate, laggard, and late.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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