lollygagging Synonyms
Strongest:
Strong:
- falling-behind
- moping
- hanging-fire
- dropping-behind
- dillydallying
- diddling
- dallying
- marking-time
- creeping
- loitering
- poking
- tarrying
- crawling
- lagging
- loafing
Weak:
- shuffling
- dragging-one-s-feet
- playing
- shilly-shallying
- lolling
- lumbering
- trifling
- stalling
- pottering-around-
- sauntering
- lounging
- easing
- taking-one-s-time
- strolling
- monkeying-around-
- fiddling-around-
- messing-around
- temporizing
- dragging-one-s-heels
- filibustering
- decelerating
- ambling
- inching
- hanging-around-or-out-
- idling
- fooling-around
- slowing-down-or-up-
- plodding
- procrastinating
- staggering
- puttering-around-
Strongest:
- hurtling
- bolting
- hurrying
- rushing
- flying
- humping
- whisking
- running
- hastening
- running
- ripping
- scrambling
- racing
- barreling
- scooting
- scurrying
- scudding
- stampeding
- speeding
- darting
- whirling
- rocketing
- zipping
- tearing
- hustling
- whizzing
- dashing
- coursing
- careering
Strong:
- galloping
- sprinting
- breezing
- barrelling
- accelerating
- quickening
- trotting
- speeding-up-
- bowling
- jogging
- hotfooting-it-
Weak:
lollygagging Meaning
lollygagging
to fool around and waste time
lollygagging Sentence Examples
- The children were scolded for lollygagging on their way to school.
- The employee was fired for lollygagging and not completing his assigned tasks.
- The police officer warned the teenagers to stop lollygagging at the corner.
- The coach grew impatient with the players' lollygagging during practice.
- The teacher confiscated the students' phones for lollygagging instead of taking notes.
- The hiker got lost because she kept lollygagging and didn't follow the map.
- The doctor advised the patient to avoid lollygagging and to rest as much as possible.
- The lazy employee was known for lollygagging and leaving his work incomplete.
- The dog walker earned extra money by lollygagging with the clients' pets.
- The neighbors complained about the teenagers lollygagging and making noise in front of their houses.
FAQs About the word lollygagging
to fool around and waste time
lingering, dragging,delaying, dawdling, falling behind, moping, hanging fire, dropping behind, dillydallying, diddling
hurtling, bolting,hurrying, rushing, flying, humping, whisking, running, hastening, running
The children were scolded for lollygagging on their way to school.
The employee was fired for lollygagging and not completing his assigned tasks.
The police officer warned the teenagers to stop lollygagging at the corner.
The coach grew impatient with the players' lollygagging during practice.
