Dilatory

slow to act; intending to cause a delay; slow; tardy; snail-like; lazy

Deborah Teramis Christian   🌈 🎲 πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦

Deborah Teramis Christian 🌈 🎲 πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦

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🧡 Discussion of California's remarkable voter turnout (~47%, highest in nation), which media & democracy advocates keep ignoring. "Despite its dilatory vote-counting, California and other vote-at-home states are doing something remarkable."
Avg turnout in non-"vote-at-home" states = ~22%.

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Spencer PriceNash

Spencer PriceNash

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Reading F. Scott Fitzgerald, I had to look up:
anodyne, acciaccare, flagitious, barratry, poitrine, punctilious, dilatory, pasquinade, cerements, diurnal, cutaway, lorgnette/lorgnon, attar, brilliantine, tonsorial, tumbrel, demimonde, misprision, organdie, invidious, cretone, dissimulation,

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dilatory

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