desultory
adjective
lacking in consistency, constancy, or visible order, disconnected; fitful.
desultoriness
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a word derived from
desultory.
Example Sentences
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It's hard to convey the sheer desultoriness of our music teaching at my secondary school.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 19, 2010
He went back to the ‘Red Lion’ with the manner and movement of a man who after a lifetime of desultoriness had at last found something to do.
From The Hand of Ethelberta by Thomas Hardy
Margaret’s views had become his own, as to the desultoriness of the life he had hitherto led.
From Deerbrook by Harriet Martineau
Perhaps, indeed, their very desultoriness is the charm of his songs: "I take up one or another," he says in a letter to Thompson, "just as the bee of the moment buzzes in my bonnet-lug."
From Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman
This would account for its desultoriness and medley of matter.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846 by Various
