tardily
- r without speed (`slow' is sometimes used informally for `slowly')
glaciers move tardily - r later than usual or than expected
notice came so tardily that we almost missed the deadline
- But tardily proclaiming itself opposed to Communist influence, the Sri Lanka Party paraded Bandaranaike's weeping widow all over Ceylon, garnered enough sympathy to split the .
- Many a sophisticated Manhattan housewife last week, tardily opening her October bills, blinked as she scanned her laundry statement.
- But the Japanese, tardily deciding to reopen the wounds to their feelings, asserted next day that the gendarmes had been mauled by the devil dogsbeaten about the hips and legs .