Definitionadj. 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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