delayer
Britishverb
Example Sentences
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Co-chairmen of its junior doctors' committee, Dr Robert Laurenson and Dr Vivek Trivedi, called Mr Barclay a "professional delayer," claiming he held the talks at the Department of Health without a mandate to negotiate.
From BBC • Mar. 2, 2023
And whether denier or delayer, she points out, “if they get their way, we’re toast”.
From The Guardian • Mar. 1, 2019
Flanders mud is a potent delayer during the sloppy months of the West European winter.
From Time Magazine Archive
On this account the Romans called him Cunctator, which meant delayer, or one who is slow though safe, not rash.
From The Story of Rome from the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic by Gilman, Arthur
He found the little devil of a delayer in the paper napkin which he had nervously wadded and dropped on the floor.
From Joan of Arc of the North Woods by Day, Holman
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