Dilatory (adj)
dai-layt-or-ee
Slow to act.
Late Middle English from late Latin dilatorius ‘delaying’, from Latin dilator ‘delayer’, from dilat- ‘deferred’, from the verb differre.
Example sentences
“He’d been dilatory in appointing someone.”
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