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tardy

UK /ˈtɑːdi/US /ˈtɑɹdi/

adjective 5
noun 2
verb 2
forms 5

adjective5

•
Late; overdue or delayed.
- He yawned, then raised a tardy hand over his mouth.
•
Ineffectual; slow-witted, slow to act, or dull.
- His tardy performance bordered on incompetence.
•
Moving with a slow pace or motion; not swift.
- […] fashions in proud Italy, / Whose manners still our tardy apish nation / Limps after in base imitation. — 1595
•
(no longer used) Unwary; unready (especially in the phrase take (someone) tardy).
- Be not ta’en tardy by unwise delay. — 1593
•
(no longer used) Criminal; guilty.
- And the Franks served the Men much the same sauce when they found them tardy, and made them run their Heats through the Streets — 1697

noun2

•
(US) A piece of paper given to students who are late to class.
- The teacher gave her a tardy because she did not come into the classroom until after the bell.
(US) An instance of a student's being marked as tardy by a teacher on the teacher's attendance sheet.

verb2

•
(rare) To dawdle.
- Sitting there on the rock behind the school, I heard nothing but the occasional raised voice of some youngster tardying on his way home, and the joints in the schoolhouse squeaking from the frost. — 2001
•
(no longer used) To make tardy.
- the good mind of Camillo tardied My swift command — 1610

forms

tardied · tardying · tardies · tardier · tardiest

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