Example Sentences:

Ramayana: Sugriva ordered the four search parties to return within a month, warning that anyone tardy would be executed.

Mahabharata:  Seeing that Arjuna had been unusually tardy in returning from Dwarka, Yudhishthira found himself gripped by extreme anxiety, all the more so when he saw many inauspicious omens around him. 

Bhagavad-gita: Being tardy is indicative of the mode of ignorance, which makes our mind distracted and our life disorderly.