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lingering
  1. An act of lingering or waiting.
  2. That which lingers; a remnant.
  3. Synonyms:
      4. delay, dawdling, hesitation, loitering, procrastination, stalling, wavering, dallying, dithering, pausing, tarrying, vacillation, waiting, cunctation, deferment, faltering, hesitance, hesitancy, postponement, slowness, dilatoriness, slackness, adjournment, breather, delaying, demurral, dragging your feet, indecision, recess, reprieve, respite, rest, temporization, temporising, temporizing, dilly-dallying, shilly-shallying, humming and hawing, delaying tactics, hanging back, hemming and hawing, lagging behind, kicking the can down the road, doubt, pause, irresolution, indecisiveness, dubiety, equivocation, irresoluteness … more
lingerer
  1. Agent noun of linger; one who lingers.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. dawdler, slowpoke, laggard, snail, loiterer, straggler, dallier, dragger, lagger, idler, crawler, lounger, plodder, loafer, lag, poke, procrastinator, tarrier, dilly-dallier, slow starter, slowcoach, foot-dragger, sluggard, slug, slogger, tortoise, stroller, do-nothing, turtle, dilly-dallyer, layabout, lazybones, slacker, shirker, skiver, waster, wastrel, bludger, piker, delayer, waiter, vagrant, one who hangs around, loitering person, slugabed, drone, malingerer, slouch, deadbeat, good-for-nothing … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “He is more of a lingerer and closer, someone who is able to stay close to the front, then make his move at just the right time.”
      “A chunk came from the new guy, Whodeybuckeye, who seemed to have made the leap from lingerer to tipper.”
      “He became a champion lingerer, making small talk, listening to stories, and eating helpings of sweet potato pie.”
lingerings
  1. plural of lingering
  2. Synonyms:
      3. delays, dawdlings, hesitation, loitering, procrastination, stallings, waverings, dallyings, ditherings, pausings, tarryings, vacillation, waiting, cunctation, deferments, falterings, hesitance, hesitancy, postponement, slowness, dilatoriness, slackness, adjournments, breathers, delayings, demurrals, indecision, recess, reprieves, respite, rest, temporization, temporisings, temporizings, shilly-shallyings, moratoriums, retardments, holding patterns, obstacles, logjams, impedance, holdups, stoppages, detention … more
lingerers
  1. plural of lingerer
  2. Synonyms:
      3. dawdlers, slowpokes, laggards, snails, loiterers, stragglers, dalliers, draggers, laggers, idlers, crawlers, loungers, plodders, loafers, lag, pokes, procrastinators, tarriers, slowcoaches, foot-draggers, tortoises, sluggards, strollers, sloggers, slugs, do-nothings, turtles, skivers, lazybones, layabouts, pikers, shirkers, wasters, bludgers, wastrels, slackers, delayers, waiters, vagrants, slugabeds, drones, good-for-nothings, malingerers, couch potatoes, slouches, deadbeats, slobs, lotus-eaters, bums, ne'er-do-wells … more
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