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Verb
Present participle for to be slow or unproductive at a task
wasting time
dallying
lingering
dawdling
tarrying
delaying
loitering
dillydallying
procrastinating
piddling
dilly-dallying
taking one's time
killing time
taking too long
fiddling about
taking one's own sweet time
lagging
diddling
crawling
poking
creeping
dragging
moping
hesitating
lollygagging
lallygagging
stalling
temporizingUS
pausing
filibustering
biding
putting off
goofing around
taking your time
staying put
getting no place fast
shilly-shallying
warming a chair
hanging about
dragging your feet
hanging round
temporisingUK
hanging around
dithering
idling
straggling
whiling away time
vacillating
marking time
falling behind
lagging behind
plodding
hanging fire
faltering
waiting
hanging back
dropping behind
playing for time
using delaying tactics
loafing
humming and hawing
playing a waiting game
slouching
trailing
trifling
pottering
staying
deferring
prevaricating
havering
swithering
moving slowly
kicking the can down the road
mooching
limping
inching
sauntering
shuffling
lolling
hedging
equivocating
wavering
staggering
stonewalling
fluctuating
going slowly
postponing
trailing behind
holding back
slowing down
falling back
pottering about
pottering around
pottering round
sitting around
gaining time
buying time
fooling around
hanging out
dragging your heels
putting off doing something
goofing off
pussyfooting around
beating about the bush
blowing hot and cold
strolling
moseying
puttering
drifting
fiddling
slacking
batting
drooping
mooning
languishing
stooging
taking time
shirking
hemming and hawing
tottering
lazing
nosing
losing
lounging
snailing
tergiversating
waiting around
oozing
hanging on
horsing around
draggling
retarding
protracting
prolonging
adjourning
paltering
cooling
goldbricking
creaking along
straying
skulking
avoiding making a decision
using Fabian tactics
stalling for time
avoiding committing oneself
limping along
taking a raincheck
suspending action
postponing action
deferring action
letting something slide
holding off
creeping along
advancing slowly
wearing on
hanging heavy
appearing to pass slowly
going on and on
going on too long
passing time
mooching around
mooching about
becoming tedious
diddle-daddling
frittering time away
frittering away
scrounging around
shlepping along
bumming around
sitting on one's butt
poking along
distracting
diverting
tailing
trudging
dropping
beating around the bush
holding over
avoiding the issue
dragging behind
bringing up the rear
slowing up
inching along
falling off
“It was a welcome piece of good fortune for the Scot, who blamed the wind for losing time in the middle sector of his lap.”
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losing track of
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losing the affection of
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