dally

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1. dally - Noun

2. dally - Verb

3. Dally - Proper noun

Meaning

To waste time in effeminate or voluptuous pleasures, or in idleness; to fool away time; to delay unnecessarily; to tarry; to trifle.

To interchange caresses, especially with one of the opposite sex; to use fondling; to wanton; to sport.

To delay unnecessarily; to while away.

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Perhaps 't is pretty to force together Thoughts so all unlike each other; To mutter and mock a broken charm, To dally with wrong that does no harm. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

When you strike a blow, do not let your mind dally on it, not concerning yourself with whether or not it is a telling blow; you should strike again and again, over and over, even four or five times. The thing is not to let your opponent even raise his head. Yagyū Munenori

It is a law woven into the nature of man, attested by history, by science, by literature and art, and by dally experience, that strength of mind and force of character are the supreme rulers of human affairs. Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II

Anti-Semitism is a horrible disease from which nobody is immune, and it has a kind of evil fascination that makes an enlightened person draw near the source of infection, supposedly in a scientific spirit, but really to sniff the vapors and dally with the. Mary McCarthy

The guys always try to chat up the new secretaries Source: Internet

My husband never flirts with other women Source: Internet

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