dilatory

How to use dilatory in a sentence

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

  India’s Tryst with Terror | Kanwal Sibal | September 9, 2011 | THE DAILY BEAST

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

  The Philippine Islands | John Foreman

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

  The History of England from the Accession of James II. | Thomas Babington Macaulay

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

  A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year | Edwin Emerson

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

  Peggy Raymond's Vacation | Harriet L. (Harriet Lummis) Smith