desultory
adjective
lacking in consistency, constancy, or visible order, disconnected; fitful.
desultorily
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a word derived from
desultory.
Example Sentences
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Outside, in the sun-baked courtyard ringing the building, a few students wandered around desultorily.
From BBC ● Mar. 26, 2023
Around then, I began to read desultorily about American experiments in communal living — 19th-century utopias, religious communities, hippie communes.
From New York Times ● Oct. 22, 2021
Officials standing guard at hospital entrances conduct temperature checks and desultorily take notes, but some visitors can pass through undetected when the guards are tired or have gone for a lunch break.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 31, 2020
On the afternoon of May 23, 2013, Lu and a group of villagers in No. 30 were chatting desultorily.
From Slate ● Sep. 4, 2015
She dragged her feet down the jet bridge, holding my hand and staring at the floor desultorily, until we stepped into the terminal and she caught the scent of Subway.
From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram
