Delayingly
"Delayingly" in a Sentence (3 examples)
And Annie could have wept for pity of him; And yet she held him on delayingly With many a scarce-believable excuse, Trying his truth and his long-sufferance, Till half-another year had slipt away.
The mother glanced round at the bed, and said, glad to occupy herself delayingly with the minor care: “Why, you have been sitting up all night! You will kill yourself.”
He was unpacking too, though as coyly and delayingly as he had undressed that day at the Highgate Ponds.