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How to pronounce “tardy”
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Pronunciation guide for tardy
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of tardy with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 2 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- How to quickly scale up contact tracing across the US
Even though it is tardy.
- Definition summary
- Late; overdue or delayed.
Example 1 of 2
How to pronounce tardy
How to quickly scale up contact tracing across the US
Even though it is tardy.
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “tardy”
Meaning
- [Adjective]
- Late; overdue or delayed.
- Moving with a slow pace or motion; not swift.
- Ineffectual; slow-witted, slow to act, or dull.
- (obsolete) Unwary; unready (especially in the phrase take (someone) tardy).
- (obsolete) Criminal; guilty.
- [Noun]
- (US) A piece of paper given to students who are late to class.
- (US) An instance of a student's being marked as tardy by a teacher on the teacher's attendance sheet.
- [Verb]
- (obsolete, transitive) To make tardy.
- (rare, intransitive) To dawdle.
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