0 the quality of being late or slow:
I know how frustrating it can be to get behind schedule because of one person's tardiness.
Feeling guilty because of his tardiness, he preached an impassioned and lengthy service.
But the survey also revealed that 67 percent felt that dressing down has led to more absenteeism and tardiness.
The young man’s tardiness convinces the woman he is not coming and that her friends and family were right all along.
A comparison of the 1970 and 1998 elections serves to illustrate the construction of contemporaneous measures of relative earliness or tardiness.
The tardiness or inefficiency of the municipal authorities in suppressing popular revolt was therefore seen by the crown as a deliberate act of connivance.
Eager to apportion blame, the colonial text turns quickly to the sweepers instead of the material limits or the tardiness of the local authorities.
During the knowledge-acquisition stage 130 training examples are used, applying mean tardiness as per formance criterion.
