Definitions
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- adverb In a
dawdling manner.
Etymologies
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dawdling + -ly
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Examples
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Andy Byers the tanner, lounging as usual on the wood-pile, and the workman, with scarcely less the aspect of idleness, dawdlingly scraping a hide on the wooden horse.
Down the Ravine Mary Noailles Murfree 1886
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She rose at seven, feeling unspeakably tired, dressed herself slowly and dawdlingly, thinking of Lady Mabel.
Vixen, Volume III. 1875
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