The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word DALLIED
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More clues leading to the result DALLIED
- Had an amorous relationship with duke, married
- Wasted time and faded away, having embraced everyone
- Having wasted time, daughter married
- Daughter getting married showed no sign of urgency
- Boy knocked over told fibs and dawdled
- Agreed with time out after date flirted
- Daughter in a relationship progressed slowly
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What does DALLIED mean?
DALLIED verb- To waste time in trivial activities, or in idleness; to trifle.
- To caress, especially of a sexual nature; to fondle or pet
- To delay unnecessarily; to while away.
- To wind the lasso rope (ie throw-rope) around the saddle horn (the saddle horn is attached to the pommel of a western style saddle) after the roping of an animal