Thesaurus: dally

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1. v. i. To waste time in effeminate or voluptuous pleasures, or in idleness; to fool away time; to delay unnecessarily; to tarry; to trifle.
2. v. i. To interchange caresses, especially with one of the opposite sex; to use fondling; to wanton; to sport.
3. v. t. To delay unnecessarily; to while away.
4. v. behave carelessly or indifferently
5. v. waste time
6. v. talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions
7. v. consider not very seriously
8. 1. To waste time in effeminate or voluptuous pleasures, or in idleness; to fool away time; to delay unnecessarily; to tarry; to trifle. We have trifled too long already; it is madness to dally any longer. Calamy. We have put off God, and dallied with his grace. Barrow. 2. To interchange caresses, especially with one of the opposite sex; to use fondling; to wanton; to sport. Not dallying with a brace of courtesans. Shak. Our aerie . . . dallies with the wind. Shak. To delay unnecessarily; to while away. Dallying off the time with often skirmishes. Knolles.
9. To delay unnecessarily; to while away.Dallying off the time with often skirmishes. Knolles.
10. v:100 v. behave carelessly or indifferently v. waste time v. consider not very seriously