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• v  behave carelessly or indifferently
• v  waste time
  Get busy--don't dally!
• v  talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions
• v  consider not very seriously

• Hatoyama's precarious right wing coalition of Liberals and Democrats is in hot water at home, which weakens his ability to deal with the Russians, but may tempt him to dally with .
• Most of the students are content to dally with the figures called Idleness and Ignorance.
• Let our frail thoughts dally with false surmise.

• toy
• play
• flirt
• dawdle
• chat up
• butterfly
• coquet
• coquette
• romance
• philander
• mash
• trifle

News & Articles

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• Time and Serena wait for no one in Errani blitz
  By Pritha Sarkar PARIS (Reuters) - Serena Williams has no qualms about keeping people waiting. But if others want the queen of tennis to play the waiting game - they can think again. The world number one was in no mood to dally around on Philippe Chatrier Court on Thursday as she unleashed all her firepower to wallop Sara Errani 6-0 6-1 to reach the French Open final for the first time since ...
  June 6, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News
• Tennis-Time and Serena wait for no one in Errani blitz
  (recasts with quotes, details) By Pritha Sarkar PARIS, June 6 (Reuters) - Serena Williams has no qualms about keeping people waiting. But if others want the queen of tennis to play the waiting game - they can think again. The world number one was in no mood to dally around on Philippe Chatrier Court on Thursday as she unleashed all her firepower to wallop Sara Errani 6-0 6-1 to reach the French ...
  June 6, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News
• Joe Garcia’s ballot scandal
  OUR OPINION: Prosecutors must not dilly-dally in this investigation of attempted ballot fraud
  June 5, 2013 - Miami Herald

Quotes

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• John Howard in Melbourne Herald Sun
  I thought that given the Dally M presentation was on, I'd get the deputy prime minister to welcome him,Mr Howard joked at the awards. "You've gotta get your priorities right; no disrespect to my very good friend, but it is rugby league...
• Billy Slater in Stuff.co.nz
  That's the way footy goes. You don't go out on the field to get Dally M points, you go out there to play for your team-mates,Slater said. "We're focusing on the Warriors now and we know it's going to be a tough game. They'll come over here...
• Kris Draper in Vancouver Sun
  Dally made a lovely little saucer pass right off my chin and in,said Draper. "There's six stitches in there and three teeth aren't where they're supposed to be, but that's okay, I tasted blood, teeth and goal all at the same time. I'll...