Despite his success on the field, he developed a reputation as a tardy dawdler.
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The painful obligation to send in our returns by midnight tonight brings out the dawdler in many of us.
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I'm a dawdler on the road to unhappy consciousness.
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Rosen, no dawdler, treated transitions like jump cuts, taking no breaths, smelling no roses, onward and upward with the next idea.
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In any event, as Erramilli the dawdler finally got on board, he found the only remaining open seat between a female passenger at the window and her husband on the aisle.
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Someone who takes more time than necessary; someone who lags behind