| VERB | to procrastinate | procrastinated | procrastinated procrastinating | procrastinates |
| SYNO | to dilly-dally | to dillydally | to drag one's feet | ... |
VERB to infinitive | simple past | past participle
present participle | 3rd person
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Usage Examples English
- He seemingly never cares about their troubles and works, and always finds excuses to procrastinate their expedition.
- Students from Western cultures tend to procrastinate in order to avoid doing worse than they have done before or from failing to learn as much as they should have, whereas students from non-Western cultures tend to procrastinate in order to avoid looking incompetent, or to avoid demonstrating a lack of ability in front of their peers.
- He made a deal with Random House, but began to procrastinate whenever he sat down to try to start writing.
- The ABRI faction's nomination was delayed, with Moerdani continuing to procrastinate by claiming that he had not discussed the vice presidential nomination with Suharto yet.
- Atassi resigned on 7 July 1939 as the French continued to procrastinate about full Syrian independence and the withdrawal of French troops, and public discontent at the delay boiled over onto the streets.
- According to "Arab News", regardless of warnings from the Iranian authorities for the pilgrims to procrastinate going on the pilgrimage to Iraq, 3.5 million Shiites, mainly Iranians entered Iraq through land borders on Friday.
- The giant radio dish is never repaired due to an ingrained tendency to procrastinate, a trait common among the Thalassans.
- The film takes a comic look at the way the powers-that-be love to procrastinate and maintain status quo, unfazed by the gravity of situations at hand.
- It is defined as clinging to unwholesome activities such as lying down and stretching out, and to procrastinate, and not being enthusiastic about or engaging in virtuous activity.
- O'Neill resorted as before to parliamentary rules to procrastinate the vote of no confidence and suggested to adjourn parliament for three weeks.
- The colonial authorities however continued to procrastinate democratic progress and the Dutch East Indies remained considerably more centralised and conservative than the Netherlands.
- On the other hand, Aurenche's scriptwriting does not help how he lives and he is a womanizer which causes him to procrastinate.
- Regardless of the exact motives, the initial strategic situation allowed both sides to procrastinate, since food supplies were ample for both armies.
- An in-detail review of the "Free Software Magazine" in 2015 called the game a "great way to procrastinate".
- After being caught red-handed during coitus, Luigi slips away from Mirella's family for fear of being cornered by Mussia who, instead of blaming him for the fait accompli, proposes to help him financially; having no other arguments to procrastinate, Luigi works on a pretext to be transferred to L'Aquila while waiting for the situation to evolve in his favor.
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