hanging about

• abide
• aestivating
• affect
• ambling
• bumming
• chilling
• dally
• dallying
• dawdling
• dillydallying
• doodling
• dozing
• droning
• estivating
• fooling
• fooling around
• footling
• frequent
• fribbling
• furloughing
• get along with
• goldbricking
• haunt
• have relations with
• hibernating
• horsing around
• idling
• kicking around
• kicking back
• killing time
• lagging
• lazing
• lazying
• linger
• lingering
• live
• loafing
• loiter
• loitering
• lolling
• lounging
• malingering
• messing
• messing around
• monkeying
• moseying
• mucking
• piddling
• playing
• poking
• relaxing
• reside
• resort
• resting
• roam
• sauntering
• spend time
• stand around
• strolling
• swanning
• swell
• tarry
• tarrying
• tinkering
• trifling
• truanting
• vegging out
• waste time

• applying
• condemn
• drudging
• exerting
• grinding
• grubbing
• humping
• hustling
• knuckling down
• laboring
• moiling
• pegging
• plodding
• plowing
• plugging
• putting out
• slaving
• sweating
• toiling
• travailing
• working

• Stop hanging about the entrance and come inside!
• He was just hanging about the park, waiting for his friends to arrive.
• There's no need for you to be hanging about the office, go home and rest.
• Why are you hanging about the store without buying anything?
• She spent the whole afternoon hanging about the mall with no clear plan.

dabbling

• amateurish
• amusing
• antic
• artsy fartsy
• bare
• cavorting
• coltish
• coy
• crude
• cut short
• dallying
• dawdling
• defective
• deficient
• delay
• delaying
• delightful
• delighting
• devilish
• dilettante
• dilly-dallying
• disporting
• diverting
• elfish
• energetic
• enjoyable
• entertaining
• faulty
• fay
• formless
• found wanting
• fragmentary
• frisking
• frisky
• frittering
• frivoling
• frivolous
• frolic
• frolicking
• frolicsome
• fun
• gamboling
• gambolling
• gay
• goldbricking
• goofy
• green
• half-baked
• half-cocked
• half-done
• hanging
• hanging about
• happy
• idling
• immature
• imperfect
• impish
• in the making
• in the rough
• incomplete
• jesting
• jocose
• jocular
• jocund
• joking
• kittenish
• knavish
• lacking
• larky
• lighthearted
• lively
• loafing
• loitering
• merry
• messing around
• mischievous
• natural
• not done
• pixie
• pixy
• plain
• playful
• playing
• pleasant
• pleasing
• pleasurable
• poking
• prankish
• procrastinating
• procrastination
• puttering
• rascally
• raw
• recreating
• relaxing
• resting
• roguish
• rollicking
• romping
• rookie
• rough
• roughhewn
• screwing around
• shapeless
• silly
• sketchy
• skylarking
• spirited
• sportful
• sporting
• sportive
• sprightly
• spunky
• teasing
• tenderfoot
• tentative
• toying
• trifling
• unaccomplished
• unadorned
• unassembled
• uncompleted
• unconcluded
• under construction
• undeveloped
• undone
• unexecuted
• unfashioned
• unfulfilled
• ungifted
• unperfected
• unpolished
• unrefined
• unskilled
• vivacious
• wanting
• whimsical

dallying

• aestivating
• ambling
• amorous
• amusing
• apathetic
• apathy
• arch
• asleep on the job
• backward
• behindhand
• bumming
• careless
• cavorting
• chilling
• comatose
• come-hither
• come-on
• coquetting
• coquettish
• courting
• coy
• crawling
• creeping
• dabbling
• dalliance
• dawdling
• decelerating
• delaying
• deliberate
• delighting
• diddling
• dilatory
• dillydallying
• directionless
• disporting
• diverting
• dozing
• dragging
• droning
• dropping behind
• drowsy
• dull
• easing
• entertaining
• enticing
• estivating
• falling behind
• filibustering
• flagging
• flightiness
• flippancy
• flirting
• flirty
• flummery
• folly
• fooling
• fooling around
• footling
• fribble
• frippery
• frisking
• frisky
• frivoling
• frivolling
• frivolousness
• frolicking
• fun
• furloughing
• futile
• gaiety
• gamboling
• gambolling
• game
• giddiness
• goldbricking
• good-for-nothing
• hanging
• hanging about
• hanging fire
• heavy-footed
• hibernating
• idle
• idleness
• idling
• inactive
• inattentive
• inching
• incompetent
• indifferent
• indolence
• indolent
• inert
• inertia
• jest
• jesting
• joking
• joshing
• kicking around
• kicking back
• kidding
• killing time
• kittenish
• lackadaisical
• laggard
• lagging
• lallygagging
• languid
• languor
• languorous
• lassitude
• late
• lax
• laziness
• lazing
• lazy
• lazying
• leading on
• leisurely
• lethargic
• lethargy
• levity
• libidinous
• lifeless
• lightheartedness
• lightness
• lingering
• listless
• listlessness
• loafing
• loitering
• lolling
• lollygagging
• lounging
• lumbering
• malingering
• manipulating
• marking time
• mashing
• measured
• messing
• messing around
• monkeying
• moping
• moratory
• moseying
• mucking
• neglectful
• negligent
• nonsense
• out of it
• passive
• piddling
• play
• playing
• pleasing
• plodding
• pokey
• poking
• poky
• procrastinating
• puerility
• putting off
• putting on
• rambling
• razzing
• recreating
• relaxing
• remiss
• resting
• ribbing
• rollicking
• romping
• sauntering
• screwing around
• shallowness
• shiftless
• shiftlessness
• shilly-shallying
• shuffling
• skylarking
• slack
• sleepy
• sloth
• slothful
• slow
• slow-footed
• slow-moving
• slowing
• sluggish
• sluggishness
• snail-like
• snail-paced
• snaillike
• snoozy
• somnolent
• spoony
• sport
• sporting
• sportive
• staggering
• stalling
• stringing along
• strolling
• superficiality
• supine
• supineness
• swanning
• tardy
• tarrying
• teasing
• temporizing
• time-wasting
• tired
• torpid
• toying
• trifling
• triviality
• truanting
• unambitious
• unconcerned
• unenergetic
• unhasty
• unhurried
• unindustrious
• unmotivated
• unpersevering
• unready
• vamping
• vegging out
• volatility
• weary
• whimsicality
• whimsy
• wooing
• worthless

dawdling

• adjournment
• aestivating
• afraid
• ambling
• apathetic
• averse
• averseness
• backward
• behind
• behindhand
• belated
• bind
• bit-by-bit
• bumming
• check
• chilling
• cooling-off period
• crawling
• creeping
• cunctation
• dallying
• decelerating
• delay
• delayed
• delaying
• deliberate
• delinquent
• demurral
• detained
• detainment
• detention
• diddling
• diffident
• dilatory
• dilly-dallying
• dillydallying
• discontinuation
• disinclined
• dormancy
• doubt
• doubtful
• doubting
• downtime
• dozing
• dragging
• dreamy
• droning
• dropping behind
• drowsy
• dubiety
• easing
• easy
• equivocation
• estivating
• falling behind
• faltering
• filibuster
• filibustering
• fluctuation
• fooling
• fooling around
• footling
• fumbling
• furloughing
• goldbricking
• goof-off time
• gradual
• half-hearted
• halting
• hanging about
• hanging back
• hanging fire
• hangup
• heavy
• heavy-footed
• held up
• hemming and hawing
• hesitancy
• hesitating
• hibernating
• hibernation
• hindrance
• holding
• holding pattern
• holdup
• hung up
• idle
• idleness
• idling
• impediment
• imperceptible
• in a bind
• inactive
• inactivity
• inching
• indecision
• indecisive
• indecisiveness
• indisposition
• indolence
• indolent
• inert
• inertia
• inertness
• inoperativeness
• interval
• irresolute
• irresoluteness
• irresolution
• jam
• jammed
• joblessness
• kicking around
• kicking back
• killing time
• lackadaisical
• lacking confidence
• lag
• laggard
• lagging
• lallygagging
• languid
• laze
• lazing
• lazy
• lazying
• leaden
• leisure
• leisurely
• lethargic
• lethargy
• lingering
• listless
• loafing
• loath
• logjam
• loitering
• lolling
• lollygagging
• lounging
• lumbering
• malingering
• marking time
• measured
• messing
• messing around
• misgiving
• mistrust
• moderate
• monkeying
• moping
• moratorium
• moseying
• mucking
• negligent
• not arrived
• not done
• obstruction
• oscillation
• otiosity
• overdue
• own sweet time
• passive
• pause
• pendulous
• phlegmatic
• piddling
• playing
• plodding
• pokey
• poking
• poky
• ponderous
• postponement
• postponing
• pottering
• problem
• procrastinating
• procrastination
• prorogation
• putting off
• qualm
• quiet
• relaxing
• reluctance
• reluctant
• remiss
• remission
• reprieve
• resting
• retardation
• retardment
• sauntering
• scruple
• setback
• shiftlessness
• shilly-shally
• shilly-shallying
• showstopper
• shuffling
• shy
• skeptical
• skepticism
• slack
• sleepy
• sloth
• slothful
• slothfulness
• slouch
• slow
• slow-footed
• slow-going
• slow-moving
• slow-paced
• slowing
• slowness
• sluggish
• sluggishness
• snail-paced
• snaillike
• staggering
• stagnant
• stagnation
• stall
• stalling
• stammering
• stay
• stop
• stoppage
• strapped for time
• strolling
• stumbling
• stupor
• stuttering
• supine
• surcease
• suspension
• swanning
• tardy
• tarrying
• temporizing
• tentative
• tentativeness
• tie up
• time to burn
• time to kill
• time-wasting
• timid
• timidity
• timidness
• to and fro
• too late
• torpid
• torpidity
• torpor
• tortoiselike
• trifling
• truancy
• truanting
• uneager
• unemployment
• unhurried
• unpredictable
• unpunctual
• unsure
• unwilling
• unwillingness
• vacillant
• vacillating
• vacillation
• vacillatory
• vegetating
• vegging out
• wait
• wavering

idling

• aestivating
• ambling
• break
• breather
• bumming
• chilling
• dallying
• dawdling
• dillydallying
• dozing
• drifting
• droning
• estivating
• feast
• fooling
• footling
• furlough
• furloughing
• goldbricking
• hanging about
• hibernating
• holiday
• hols
• holy day
• interim
• intermission
• interval
• kicking around
• kicking back
• killing time
• lagging
• lazing
• lazying
• leave
• legal holiday
• liberty
• lingering
• loafing
• loitering
• lolling
• lounging
• malingering
• messing
• monkeying
• moseying
• mucking
• piddling
• playing
• poking
• recess
• relaxation
• relaxing
• respite
• rest
• resting
• sabbatical
• sauntering
• slacking
• strolling
• swanning
• tarrying
• trifling
• truanting
• vacation
• vegging out

kicking around

• about
• absorbing
• abusing
• aestivating
• ambling
• analyzing
• any old place
• around
• around somewhere
• assimilating
• bad-mouthing
• batting
• believing
• blame
• brutalizing
• bullying
• bumming
• burning
• castigation
• censure
• chewing on
• chewing over
• chilling
• cogitating
• conceiving
• concluding
• considering
• contemplating
• cruising
• curse
• curses
• dallying
• dawdling
• debating
• defamation
• deliberating
• derision
• digesting
• dillydallying
• doodling
• dozing
• drifting
• droning
• elsewhere
• entertaining
• estivating
• exploring
• eyeing
• eying
• floating
• fooling
• fooling around
• footling
• fribbling
• furloughing
• galavanting
• gallivanting
• goldbricking
• gypsying
• hanging about
• harassing
• harming
• here and there
• hibernating
• hoboing
• horsing around
• hosing
• hurting
• idling
• ill-treating
• ill-using
• in one place or another
• injuring
• insults
• invective
• kicking back
• killing time
• knifing
• lagging
• lazing
• lazying
• libel
• lingering
• loafing
• loitering
• lolling
• looking at
• lounging
• malingering
• maltreating
• manhandling
• maundering
• meandering
• meditating
• messing
• messing around
• messing over
• mishandling
• mistreating
• misusing
• molesting
• monkeying
• mooching
• moping
• moseying
• mucking
• obloquy
• opining
• oppressing
• opprobrium
• outraging
• parts unknown
• perpending
• persecuting
• piddling
• playing
• poking
• pondering
• pushing around
• put down
• questioning
• quinine
• rambling
• ranging
• reasoning
• relaxing
• reminiscing
• reproach
• resting
• reviewing
• revilement
• revolving
• roaming
• roving
• ruminating
• sandbagging
• sauntering
• scattered
• scolding
• second-guessing
• signifying
• slander
• someplace
• someplace or another
• someplace or other
• somewheres
• straggling
• straying
• strolling
• studying
• swanning
• swearing
• taking apart
• tarrying
• tinkering
• tirade
• tormenting
• torturing
• traipsing
• tramping
• trifling
• truanting
• turning
• upbraiding
• vagabonding
• vegging out
• victimizing
• vilification
• violating
• vituperation
• wandering
• weighing
• wronging

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