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Delay

A putting off or deferring procrastination lingering inactivity stop detention hindrance

Dally

voluptuous pleasures or in idleness to fool away time to delay unnecessarily to tarry to trifle

Cunctative

Slow tardy dilatory causing delay

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Cunctation

Delay procrastination

Comperendinate

To delay

unreasonable

clearly inappropriate, excessive, or harmful in degree or kind [an delay] [an restraint of trade] b : lacking justification in fact

respite

enforced agreement that provides a debtor with time or a delay for the payment of creditors

prejudice

[the court found no to the defendant by the lengthy delay in bringing charges] b : tendency for a decision on

Forslack

To neglect by idleness to delay or to waste by sloth

peremptory

take entirely, destroy] 1 : permitting no dispute, alternative, or delay ;specif : not providing an opportunity to show cause why

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