Sentence example with the word 'desultory'

desultory

aberrant, designless, errant, haphazard, irresolute, planetary, slippery, ticklish, unordered, untrustworthy, zigzag

Definition adj. marked by lack of definite plan or regularity or purpose

Last update: September 8, 2015


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For ten minutes the firing, in a desultory fashion, went on.   [adjective]

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We never really played together, or had any more than desultory conversations.   [adjective]

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The occasional attention of his parents might indeed have been of service to prevent the dissipation of mind incidental to such a desultory course of reading.   [adjective]

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Nothing perhaps increases by indulgence more than a desultory habit of reading, especially under such opportunities of gratifying it.   [adjective]

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What selfevident enigma pondered with desultory constancy during 30 years did Bloom now, having effected natural obscurity by the extinction of artificial light, silently suddenly comprehend.   [adjective]

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CHAPTER III EDUCATION The education of our hero, Edward Waverley, was of a nature somewhat desultory.   [adjective]

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In the lulls, Robert and his mother exchanged bits of desultory conversation.   [adjective]

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His schooling was short and desultory, his education being attended to by private tutors and by his father, who left the boy largely to follow his own inclination.   [adjective]

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Benet's, her education had been as desultory as her life.   [Please select]

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Two days of desultory street fighting ensued, during which the fleet began to bombard the city, but was compelled to desist by the interference of foreign men-of-war, on the ground that the bombardment was.   [Please select]

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He is a shade desultory, and too spontaneous to be systematic.   [Please select]

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