Synonyms

1. late
2. belated

Sentence Examples

1. The scholars were hurried through their lessons without stopping at trifles those who were nimble skipped over half with impunity, and those who were tardy had a smart application now and then in the rear, to quicken their speed or help them over a tall word.
2. But the gang which has drawn upon itself the pointed animadversion, although the somewhat tardy and very suspicious evidence of Madame Deluc, is the only gang which is represented by that honest and scrupulous old lady as having eaten her cakes and swallowed her brandy, without putting themselves to the trouble of making her payment.
3. I got pulled into an urgent call with your father and showed up tardy.
4. He was, in truth, proceeding to Montcalm, fearless of every danger, to claim the tardy escort for which he had before conditioned.
5. On Monday, it was ascertained that the girl had not been to the Rue des Drâmes and when the day elapsed without tidings of her, a tardy search was instituted at several points in the city, and its environs.
6. The elastic, light step of an Indian was gone, and in its place he was compelled to toil his tardy way over the ground, inch by inch.
7. Dominic paced the room, his hands behind his back, while Silas clicked his tongue, as if preparing to scold someone for being tardy to class.