dawdle
verb (used without object)
to waste time; idle; trifle; loiter.
has been dawdling
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present perfect progressiveof dawdle (3rd person singular).present perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that began in the past, has continued continuously, and is still in progress.
Example Sentences
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It thus presented a White House mandate to the Civil Aeronautics Board, which has been dawdling over a general passenger-fare investigation since the spring of 1956, is not scheduled to complete it until next March.
From Time Magazine Archive
What a happy revelation for the friends and family of Andrew Vane, who has been dawdling in your arms, while another woman as much as held his plighted word!
From The Transgression of Andrew Vane a novel by Carryl, Guy Wetmore
