Antonyms for dally
ˈdæl idal·ly

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1. dally

   Antonyms:
   toil, labor, work, study, fag, stir, bustle, hasten

   Synonyms:
   trifle, play, wanton, sport, fondle, delay, procrastinate, dawdle

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1. dally, toy, play, flirtverb

   behave carelessly or indifferently

   "Play about with a young girl's affection"

   Synonyms:
   recreate, make for, bring, wager, flirt, play, work, meet, take on, coquette, coquet, butterfly, romance, wreak, dawdle, toy, bet, roleplay, playact, run, fiddle, spiel, diddle, philander, act, represent, mash, chat up, encounter, trifle, act as

2. dally, dawdleverb

   waste time

   "Get busy--don't dally!"

   Synonyms:
   lag, flirt, play, linger, fall behind, coquette, coquet, butterfly, romance, dawdle, toy, fall back, philander, mash, chat up, trifle

3. chat up, flirt, dally, butterfly, coquet, coquette, romance, philander, mashverb

   talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions

   "The guys always try to chat up the new secretaries"; "My husband never flirts with other women"

   Synonyms:
   flirt, crush, womanise, court, squelch, solicit, play, coquette, coquet, butterfly, romance, comminute, dawdle, toy, woo, bray, womanize, grind, squeeze, philander, crunch, mash, chat up, squash, trifle

4. dally, trifle, playverb

   consider not very seriously

   "He is trifling with her"; "She plays with the thought of moving to Tasmania"

   Synonyms:
   take on, fiddle, wanton, bet, spiel, act, romance, run, flirt, trifle, diddle, meet, coquette, piddle, roleplay, chat up, butterfly, act as, toy, encounter, playact, work, dawdle, make for, piddle away, play, represent, wanton away, frivol, bring, recreate, philander, coquet, mash, wreak, wager

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1. dallyverb

   Synonyms:
   dawdle, trifle, fondle, wanton, delay, postpone, procrastinate

How to use dally in a sentence?

1. Mary McCarthy:

   Anti-Semitism is a horrible disease from which nobody is immune, and it has a kind of evil fascination that makes an enlightened person draw near the source of infection, supposedly in a scientific spirit, but really to sniff the vapors and dally with the possibility.

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