Being on time to an appointment or work is polite; being tardy is bad manners.
He was often tardy, and the last straw was him being late for her best friend's 40th birthday party.
I'm a lazy person and do things sluggishly. Hence I am tardy for not only your class, but also other ones.
He was tardy in his response [in paying the money].
The tardy glow of the new moon has a silver glow on its snowy branches.
Even though most offices don't have a tardy bell, you can bet someone is taking note of who shows up late and who skips out early.
Publishers coax books out of tardy authors.
In the end of summer, several tardy lotus flowers bring a little coolness.
She says she has been habitually tardy for years — late to everything from concerts to friends' weddings — and once showed up an hour and a half late for a date.
He continually bewailed his tardy journey to his mother's house.
They were tardy in offering help.
At Potsdam, he was tardy again and quick to tell journalists that he intended to leave early.
I make for my goal, I follow my course; over the loitering and tardy will I leap.
Love moderately. Long love doth swift arrives as tardy as too slow.愛得適度，才能愛得長久。欲速則不達。
France was tardy in Tunisia and wavered over Egypt.
Excessive application of nitrogen fertilizers results in tardy bearing.
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