adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a desultory conversation
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Conversation was desultory for we were all exhausted though Mandeville declared that tomorrow he would spread his net.
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Curious, therefore, that the reception was so desultory .
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He answered a few questions in a desultory fashion, even, it seemed, a little grudgingly.
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It perfectly caught the air of feebleness which has characterised months of desultory chatter.
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She greets us in a desultory way, nothing at all like her usual greeting.
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The peace of Utrecht ended the war proper in 1713, but desultory skirmishes carried on until 1714.
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Yet sedimentation and disappearing marshes alone can not explain the thickening of the bay's waters and its desultory humours.