Synonyms for dally
ˈdæl i

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1. dally, toy, play, flirt(verb)

   behave carelessly or indifferently

   "Play about with a young girl's affection"

   Synonyms:
   recreate, make for, bring, wager, flirt, play, work, meet, take on, coquette, coquet, butterfly, romance, wreak, dawdle, toy, bet, roleplay, playact, run, fiddle, spiel, diddle, philander, act, represent, mash, chat up, encounter, trifle, act as

2. dally, dawdle(verb)

   waste time

   "Get busy--don't dally!"

   Synonyms:
   lag, flirt, play, linger, fall behind, coquette, coquet, butterfly, romance, dawdle, toy, fall back, philander, mash, chat up, trifle

3. chat up, flirt, dally, butterfly, coquet, coquette, romance, philander, mash(verb)

   talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions

   "The guys always try to chat up the new secretaries"; "My husband never flirts with other women"

   Synonyms:
   flirt, crush, womanise, court, squelch, solicit, play, coquette, coquet, butterfly, romance, comminute, dawdle, toy, woo, bray, womanize, grind, squeeze, philander, crunch, mash, chat up, squash, trifle

4. dally, trifle, play(verb)

   consider not very seriously

   "He is trifling with her"; "She plays with the thought of moving to Tasmania"

   Synonyms:
   take on, fiddle, wanton, bet, spiel, act, romance, run, flirt, trifle, diddle, meet, coquette, piddle, roleplay, chat up, butterfly, act as, toy, encounter, playact, work, dawdle, make for, piddle away, play, represent, wanton away, frivol, bring, recreate, philander, coquet, mash, wreak, wager

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1. dally

   Synonyms:
   trifle, play, wanton, sport, fondle, delay, procrastinate, dawdle

   Antonyms:
   toil, labor, work, study, fag, stir, bustle, hasten

Dictionary of English Synonymes(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. dally(v. n.)

   Synonyms:
   trifle, dawdle, lose time, waste time, idle away time, fritter away time

2. dally(v. n.)

   Synonyms:
   fondle, toy, interchange caresses

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1. dally(v)

   Synonyms:
   dawdle, trifle, fondle, wanton, delay, postpone, procrastinate

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1. List of paraphrases for "dally":

   dali, dallas, daly

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1. Mary McCarthy:

   Anti-Semitism is a horrible disease from which nobody is immune, and it has a kind of evil fascination that makes an enlightened person draw near the source of infection, supposedly in a scientific spirit, but really to sniff the vapors and dally with the possibility.

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