荏苒

じんぜん
procrastination

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じんぜん【荏苒】

●荏苒時日を費す dillydally; procrastinate; waste many a day; 〔引き延ばす〕 be put off [postponed] from day to day

・荏苒と procrastinatingly; dillydallying.

●荏苒として遂に今日に至った. And it has thus been delayed until now.