What's the difference between behindhand and tardily?

Behindhand


Definition:

  • (adv. & a.) In arrears financially; in a state where expenditures have exceeded the receipt of funds.
  • (adv. & a.) In a state of backwardness, in respect to what is seasonable or appropriate, or as to what should have been accomplished; not equally forward with some other person or thing; dilatory; backward; late; tardy; as, behindhand in studies or in work.

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Tardily


Definition:

  • (adv.) In a tardy manner; slowly.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In 12% of the cases the necrosis increases very clearly, tardily, between the ninth and fourteenth day.
  • (2) We stand up a lot in church, albeit tardily for the drearier hymns.
  • (3) On the basis of the reported data, a correct and precocious differential diagnostics is recommended in order to face in a better way the serious consequences which may tardily affect the urinary apparatus.
  • (4) In retrospect, it all seems pretty logical now: straddled at the tail-end of a self-indulgent bout of thoroughly earnest teenage introspection, which had manifested itself through long solitary gambols over village greens; vague, confused affairs with willowy, callous girls; occasionally picking away tardily at cheap open-tuned guitars in an effort to “express myself”; studious, worshipful dialectics over the hidden gem-like enunciations on Blonde on Blonde – above all, that arch-affectation of the world-weary Misunderstood Youth.
  • (5) Six strains of an undescribed Candida species which ferment D-xylose tardily, were isolated from soil.
  • (6) When the young leader of the radical black consciousness movement died in police custody in 1977, he inspired songs by the folksinger Tom Paxton, the prog-rock star Peter Hammill, the reggae artists Steel Pulse and Tappa Zukie, and, tardily but most famously, Peter Gabriel .
  • (7) The EEG did not undergo sizeable change at low SNP doses given in isolation; toxic doses always induced alterations with peculiar morphology, but developing only tardily after SNP perfusion was begun.

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