(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.
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(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.