dilatory

Decision making is slow, acquisition processes are dilatory, and maintenance of the equipment bought is poor.

The tedious, dilatory time and money-wasting “come later on” procedure of times gone by no longer obtains.

But the policy of Austria was, at that time, strangely dilatory and irresolute.

The Greek Government, British retaliation which was all but bankrupt, was dilatory in settling these claims.

An early dinner was eaten, and the dishes washed with an alacrity in agreeable contrast to the dilatory methods of the morning.

He felt like explaining to them that he had not just arrived, and that he really was not so foolish or so dilatory as he looked.