tardy
adjective
late; behind time; not on time.
tardier
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comparativeof tardy.comparative
The form of an adjective or adverb indicating a greater degree of a quality.
Example Sentences
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The next morning he slept over; was tardier at his desk than he has almost ever been, arriving shortly after ten.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Your heels are tardier now than they were at Worcester!"
From The Pigeon Pie by Charlotte Mary Yonge
So there, Nor tardier, to his toil the Lord of Flame 478 Springs from his couch of down, the workmen's task to frame.
From The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor by Edward Fairfax Taylor
How does the presence of few tameable animals in the New World help to account for its tardier development as compared with the Old World?
From Early European History by Hutton Webster
To the poet, vision reveals a certain form of the truth, which the rest of men laboriously discover and prove by the tardier methods of meditation and science.
From Critical Miscellanies, Vol. I Essay 3: Byron by John Morley
