dilatoriness
- n slowness as a consequence of not getting around to it
- Popular Premier Venizelos knew what most Greeks in the Middle East urgently wanted: an end to the old Tsouderos cabinet's dilatoriness, a broadened government capable of .
- But Chungking reported last week that Soviet dilatoriness had "much affected" the feasibility of the landing.
- The Court found him guilty of "vacillation, dilatoriness and lack of enterprise," and declared that he had been slow in obeying orders, remiss in securing naval intelligence .