tardy
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- s after the expected or usual time; delayed
tardy children are sent to the principal
always tardy in making dental appointments
- The meal was supposed to have been at five, but Kyles was used to King being tardy for social appointments.
- Better be punctual: your second tardy return gets you booted from the system.
- Tales of this film's agonizing gestation and tardy birth, though already the stuff of legend, will mean little to moviegoers, who will pay the same $7 or $8 to see Titanic that .