dally
verb (used without object)
to waste time; loiter; delay.
have dallied
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present perfectof dally.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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They may have dallied with less tame species at some point and become their own breed.
From Time ● May 29, 2012
And though New Yorkers have dallied with both, many have now discovered a lawn game from the flyover states.
From New York Times ● Sep. 15, 2011
But while U.S. businessmen have dallied, the world has not waited.
From Time Magazine Archive
Whether the colonel might have dallied still longer is mere conjecture, when a letter marked "haste" was delivered by an orderly dragoon, and in half an hour the "leathern conveniency" was rumbling down the avenue.
From International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 5, July 29, 1850 by Various
We women of the world, we deep schemers, we who have dallied with the blackness of lies, can see farther than another into the deep, pure well of truth.
From The Honorable Miss A Story of an Old-Fashioned Town by F. Earl Christy
