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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.

Tardy


Definition:

  • (superl.) Moving with a slow pace or motion; slow; not swift.
  • (superl.) Not being inseason; late; dilatory; -- opposed to prompt; as, to be tardy in one's payments.
  • (superl.) Unwary; unready.
  • (superl.) Criminal; guilty.
  • (v. t.) To make tardy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But even if he had a real-life Tardis it is unlikely that he would travel beyond the here and now, such is his ubiquity across screen and stage.
  • (2) This will be the ninth episode, in which Jenna Coleman's Clara must lug the Doctor and his Tardis around in her handbag after they get shrunken down to miniature size.
  • (3) Laughing out loud, laugh out loud (used chiefly in electronic communication to draw attention to a joke of amusing statement, or to express amusement.” Despite criticism at the time, the OED had in fact been tardy in deciding to include it.
  • (4) I've known for a very long time how to work the Tardis.
  • (5) I guess you have to do what you can when you don't have a Tardis.
  • (6) Although Twitter has been criticised for its tardy response to the threats directed at Creasy and Criado-Perez, Whittingdale said he did not know enough about the case to be able to comment on it.
  • (7) He created his own title sequence for the new series of Doctor Who , complete with Peter Capaldi, a spinning Tardis, intergalactic vistas, and an eye-catching swoop through the gears of a clock.
  • (8) Anterior subcutaneous transposition is a good method for treating tardy ulnar palsy.
  • (9) The results show that: elders have substantial levels of forgetting; nonadherence decreases with higher cognitive test scores; portable bar code scanners are useful for monitoring adherence; and voice mail reduces tardiness and complete forgetting.
  • (10) The pirouette mutation was tested for possible genetic linkage with naked neck, tardy feathering, the MN t(Z;1) chromosome rearrangement, all assigned to distinctly different regions of Chromosome 1, and the OH inv(2) chromosome rearrangement and shankless (associated with the OH inv(2) rearrangement).
  • (11) Gay rights campaigners point to the Reagan administration’s reluctance to accept the seriousness of Aids as a health issue and tardiness in tackling the resulting crisis in the 1980s.
  • (12) Even on Saturday, Emmanuel Steward, commentating for HBO, complained repeatedly about the champion's mindset - his insistence on watching the Celtics vs Heat Game 7 , his tardiness to the ring - while praising the collected nature and focus of his younger opponent.
  • (13) Cubitus varus cases with tardy ulnar nerve palsy, compared to cases without it, were older at the first visit to the clinic for cubitus varus deformity.
  • (14) Tardy ulnar nerve palsy in the child is an infrequent occurrence.
  • (15) Thewlis described his conversations with Reynolds in the eccentric Clerkenwell watering hole The Tardis, "about Jesse James and James Joyce".
  • (16) But he made amends in the 52nd minute when the Jets expertly exploited Adelaide's tardiness.
  • (17) Nigel Farage , who was so late to a Ukip pre-conference event in Port Talbot that it ended before he arrived, says his tardiness is nothing to do with his professionalism, but is in fact because of immigrants.
  • (18) Tardy or incompletely dissected circular plaster bandage turned out to be a factor of complication.
  • (19) Smith said: "He took quite a lot of interest in the Tardis's controls and asked a lot of questions about it.
  • (20) An unpleasant feature of these glaucomas is that, somehow or other, treatment comes too late: complete cupping of the optic disk when the ophthalmologist is first consulted, increased intraocular pressure in exfoliation syndrome detected too late, or a tardy decision to perform an iridotomy or a fistulizing operation.

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