(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.
Tarty
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Tarty said he has heard stories of home care workers and food handlers being sent home from their jobs because their employers feared they might have been exposed to the disease.
(2) Being voted the sexiest guy in the world by a gay magazine (Daley's aesthetic straight daddy David Beckham was runner-up) might result in your straight mates gently "taking the mick", but in this age of rampant male tartiness, in which almost every straight male athlete has been on the cover of a gay mag in their knickers, they're probably more than a tad jealous too.
(3) The Dallas Foundation, which links donors with non-profit agencies, said in a statement that it is focusing efforts on helping Vickery Meadow because “the backlash from this attention has had negative consequences for a neighborhood already plagued by poverty, affecting residents’ ability to work as well as the delivery of volunteer services within the community.” Alben Tarty, a Liberian community spokesman, said a fear of stigmatisation after the first diagnosed case of Ebola in the US has led to “rumours” that some Liberians’ jobs might be in jeopardy.