1. Tending or intended to cause delay; dilatory tactics. 2. Characterized by procrastination : tardy; dilatory in paying bills.

slow and likely to cause delay: dilatory behaviour/tactics dilatory in British institutions have been dilatory in cutting credit card charges.

Something dilatory creates a delay. Remember when your math teacher asked you to work out a problem on the board and you tried to get her talking about her ...

adjective · tending to delay or procrastinate; slow; tardy. · intended to cause delay, gain time, or defer decision: a dilatory strategy.

24 июл. 2020 г. · 20 sentence examples: 1. The boss sacked a dilatory worker yesterday. 2. The Government has been dilatory in condemning the outrage. 3.

24 июл. 2024 г. · 'Dilatory' in a sentence: This new, less dilatory mode doesn't ask to be understood, but haunts us with a bleakly dead-on, diffident humor ...

[more dilatory; most dilatory] : tending to be late : slow to do something. She tends to be dilatory [=slow] about answering letters.

Dilatory Sentence Examples: dilatory The proceedings were dilatory, and the attitude of the Dutch deputies exceedingly exasperating.

​dilatory (in doing something) not acting quickly enough; causing delay. The government has been dilatory in dealing with the problem of unemployment.