laggardness

The second one had stayed somewhat longer- long enough, anyway, to torture the hindmost driver for his laggardness.

Lan muttered about the laggardness of their travel, but it was he who set the pace and forced the rest to keep it.

Part of the problem is the dearth of small companies and the technological laggardness that force South Korea to import Japanese components and production machines for the cars, videocassette recorders, computer chips and ships it makes.