Synonym: late, overdue. Antonym: quick. Similar words: jeopardy, double jeopardy, retard, sturdy, stare, star, target, stark. Meaning: ['tɑrdɪ /'tɑː-] 
adj. after the expected or usual time; delayed.
adj. after the expected or usual time; delayed. 
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1. Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow. 
2. Two of the pupiles were tardy this morning.
3. The boss is unsatisfied with the tardy tempo.
4. Do please forgive this tardy reply.
5. It's impolite to make a tardy appearance.
6. He's been tardy three times this semester.
7. The law is often tardy in reacting to changing attitudes.
8. We apologize for our tardy response to your letter.
9. He was never tardy or absent the whole semester.
10. Do please forgive this very tardy reply.
11. Rosemary was frequently absent or tardy and alternated between verbally abusing her teachers and flat-out ignoring them.
12. The tardy battle for Richmond yet lingered. Public confidence and public courage rose each day of the delay.
13. This makes the car feel tardy in quick manoeuvres and exacerbates the variable-ratio's less-than-linear response through fast sweepers.
14. It's an excrescence, a monstrosity, some tardy addition to the agenda.
15. The tardy appearance of the tapes provided the opportunity for Sen.
16. Or if the tardy wife would just serve dinner on time, her husband would cease bloodying her nose.
17. Talking out, skipping class, being tardy or disrespectful are no more acceptable for work-inhibited students than for any others.
18. Yorkshire may have been slightly tardy in not monitoring his schoolboy progress.
19. In retrospect the studio appears unforgivably tardy.
20. They were tardy in offering help.
21. Then brusquely his tardy rage flamed up.
22. Excessive application of nitrogen fertilizers results in tardy bearing.
23. Summer came tardy that year.
24. He was tardy at school [ for supper ].
25. I've never been tardy, absent, disobedient, slothful or disrespectful.
26. I was as tardy as ever for the afternoon appointments.
27. He wept for the loss of his mother and his tardy recognition of her affection.
28. Dinner was somewhat delayed on account of David's rather tardy arrival.
29. Quaker creditors showed great tolerance to those who were tardy in paying their bills.
30. The Jesuits soon boasted a chapel and a lot,(sentencedict.com) while the tardy Protestants waited eight years to build their own church.