procrastinate
verb (used without object)
to defer action; delay.
procrastinatingly
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a word derived from
procrastinate.
Example Sentences
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My dear Hooker, I am no better than a Gadarene swine for not writing to you from the Maloja, but I was too procrastinatingly lazy to expend even that amount of energy.
From Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 3 by Leonard Huxley
"The one you so kindly found for me?" he asked, procrastinatingly.
From Graustark by George Barr McCutcheon
"We are going to have a discouraging meal," I gossiped procrastinatingly.
From The Firefly of France by Marion Polk Angellotti
Seeing the trouble in the embryo, the government procrastinatingly made some amendments to the Labor Act.
From The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917 by Various
