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Dawdler

noun
1.
Someone who takes more time than necessary; someone who lags behind.  Synonyms: drone, laggard, lagger, poke, trailer.






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"Dawdler" Quotes from Famous Books



... and finely dressed, ma'am," was the woman's careful answer, "but I don't make friends with strange nurses and I don't think much of hers. She's a young dawdler who sits novel reading and if Master Donal were a young pickpocket with the measles, the child would be playing with him just the same as far as I can see. The young woman sits under a tree and reads and the pretty little ...
— The Head of the House of Coombe • Frances Hodgson Burnett

... under the calm gaze of the desert, he found himself turning his thoughts inward. He had been driven out of his father's house. He had been called a dawdler and a trifler and a do-nothing. He had been told by a stern old man who was a man that he was a disgrace to his name. He had never done anything but dance and smoke and drink and make pretty speeches which were polite lies and which were ...
— Under Handicap - A Novel • Jackson Gregory

... dawdler. As an infant, if report speaks truly, I dawdled over my food, over my toilet, and over my slumbers. Nothing (so I am told) could prevail on me to stick steadily to my bottle till it was done; but I ...
— Parkhurst Boys - And Other Stories of School Life • Talbot Baines Reed



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