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· dilly-dally
verb
postpone doing what one should be doing
"He did not want to write the letter and procrastinated for days"
Similar words
dillydally
drag one's feet
drag one's heels
procrastinate
shillyshally
stall
Source: Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).