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
After the only competent leader had been snatched from the Christians by an angry fate, the weakness and desultoriness of the others had destroyed the fruits of conquest.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 06 (From Barbarossa to Dante) by Charles F. (Charles Francis) Horne
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
The habit of desultoriness, which has been acquired by allowing yourself to abandon a half-finished work, more than balances any little skill gained in one vocation which might possibly be of use later.
From Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden
It was snowing with a fine-flaked desultoriness just sufficient to make the woodland gray, without ever achieving whiteness.
From The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy
