Difference between Dawdling and Dilatory

DAWDLING vs DILATORY: NOUN

In law, a plea or other proceeding in a suit which is intended to delay the suit without reference to its merits.

Inclined to waste time and lag behind
Wasting time
Using cautious slow strategy to wear down opposition; avoiding direct confrontation
Causing or intended to cause delay.
Inclined to defer or put off what ought to be done at once; given the procrastination; delaying; procrastinating; loitering.
Marked by procrastination or delay; tardy; slow; sluggish; -- said of actions or measures.
A plea designed to create delay in the trial of a cause, generally founded upon some matter not connected with the merits of the case.
Intentionally delaying (someone or something), intended to cause delay, gain time, or defer decision.
Slow or tardy.
Characterized by or given to delay or slowness: : slow.

Intended to bring about delay, or to gain time and defer decision: as, a dilatory motion.
Marked by or given to procrastination or delay; slow; tardy; not prompt: as, dilatory measures; a dilatory messenger.

Saunter, Trundle, Loafing, Dallying, Ambling, Plodding, Dithering, Wasting time, Laggard, Trifling, Dalliance, Slow, Pokey, Poky, Dilatory

Reluctant, Hesitant, Sluggish, Delayed, Delaying, Delay, Procrastination, Fabian, Laggard, Cautious, Unpunctual, Pokey, Poky, Slow, Dawdling

Blundering, Hurrying, Saunter, Trundle, Ambling, Plodding, Dithering, Wasting time, Laggard, Trifling, Dalliance, Slow, Pokey, Poky, Dilatory

Lackadaisical, Late, Reluctant, Hesitant, Sluggish, Delayed, Delaying, Delay, Fabian, Laggard, Cautious, Unpunctual, Pokey, Poky, Slow

Lower expectations of federal aid and raise incentives for state leaders to aid themselves without dawdling.
Bedtime was at 8:30pm sharp, and the kids did a pretty good job of not dawdling or stalling.
Now, every time I see yours, I could kick myself for dawdling and losing out.
Bashar was dawdling because he thought his partner was out caught.
Slacking around backstage, seemingly dawdling around to get their gear onstage.
Regulating the mainstream media: dawdling in the last chance saloon?
The dawdling global response to warming temperatures means runaway climate change now looms.
Astrove senses the dawdling and coaxes them back to their shovels.
Wow, just dawdling without intent to be malevolent is an offence?.
Germany, and still more the dawdling week in Constantinople.

Dilatory methods, willful neglect or misrepresentation in the inspection of meat.
Monotonic and dilatory pore pressure decay during piezocone tests in clay.
Motions should not be made for dilatory or improper uses.
But these dilatory tactics eventually come to an end.
Common law pleading included dilatory pleas, rejoinders and rebutters.
No dilatory action shall be allowed by the board.
No dilatory motion shall be entertained by the speaker.
Potassium exerts a dilatory effect on vascular smooth muscle.
Dilatory shades may schmalzily gage during a seisin.
He treated this matter in a dilatory way.